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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. With careful and continuous learning processes, SlideShare is inverting that idea and going to market with a validated product. That is the essence of proving the business in micro-scale. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

No business model, either. Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ?