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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). This post has been removed by the author. November 5, 2008 10:13 AM spanky said.

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Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference

Software By Rob

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Give your user a better experience out of the box, as they are learning, and once they are experts with your product.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

I think you’re giving generally good advice but there are other factors like SEO value of your name/domain, memorability, simplicity, etc. Sure, don’t obsess over a name, but please pick the best one you can without stalling your product. it should relate to your product directly or indirectly. Brian Burridge.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Im on the team that released one of the Taxi apps, and we agree that the "SEO" and placement on the App Store can sometimes leave users with insufficient or inaccurate information to make decisions. Hey Eric, very interesting post.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.