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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Its now a technique I recommend for any web-based startup. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. CGI scripts had notoriously bad performance.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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