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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU.

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Lean startup tools for Rails apps

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Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. This isnt Rails-specific, but we use SimpleDB for dumping a lot of important metrics data, like performance measurements, which we then turn into metrics.

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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. Between the metrics and the direct customer questions, SlideShare had what Sinha calls “minor learnings and then major shifts.&# SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Yeah, that's caring for your community.

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