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I had the chance to interview Randy Peterson of P&G for his upcoming participation in Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose where he will be speaking on the Keynote Roundtable: “Why Does Search Get the Credit for Everything?” You are participating in a keynote roundtable this year at the SES 2008 show in San Jose about attributing sales to Search – How much credit does an SEM program deserve in an overall marketing mix? MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. December 17, 2008 2:04 PM Alex Horovitz said. December 17, 2008 7:56 PM dmartell said. December 19, 2008 9:02 PM rtolmach said. December 27, 2008 6:46 PM Robin Good said. MORE
Know the difference between a Reporting Squirrel and a Analysis Ninja? One is in the business of providing data. One is in the business of providing, to use a old fashioned word, information. MORE
We love our conversion rates. :) Really really. Part of me is glad because my book and the Trinity strategy and the Web Analytics 2.0 mindset all stress the importance of measuring Outcomes. No Outcomes = No Happiness. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. December 10, 2008 6:37 AM Anonymoussaid. MORE
Admit it, you secretly live in the fear of your Senior Management finding out that your online greatness is less a result of your online campaigns and more a result of the tons and tons your company has invested in the real world. The real world. "Offline" MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 Getting started with split-testing One of the startup founders I work with asked me a smart question recently, and I thought Id share it. December 7, 2008 6:05 PM Cupar Garden Centre said. Unlike most of the people whove endured my one-line split-testing talk, this team has taken it to heart. Theyre getting started creating their first A/B tests, and asked "Should we split-test EVERYTHING?" MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. November 26, 2008 9:23 AM Andrew Meyer said. link] Keep up the great posts, Andy November 29, 2008 10:44 AM life wealth explorer said. December 1, 2008 12:25 PM Alex Horovitz said. December 17, 2008 7:45 PM spirink said. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. December 2, 2008 8:53 AM Lisa said. December 2, 2008 10:47 AM William Pietri said. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said. December 8, 2008 11:37 PM Jackson Gates said. MORE
Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008! Cracking The Code. MORE
Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 MORE
As a follow-up to my last post on Meetups SEO / SEM , I was just booted from the group and any of my comments about issues I had with the way the group was handled along with my negative vote about the event were deleted from the group. It makes me wonder if Meetup is actually encouraging this kind of thing MORE
Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. I feel like am an Analytics God. What would be your advice for me in terms of next steps for my career? MORE
I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. It felt like a bad time share presentation. MORE
Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008! MORE
Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen MORE
There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. Just hard. And for now it is equal parts quantitative, qualitative and faith. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. October 21, 2008 11:27 PM David said. October 22, 2008 9:28 AM Nivi said. MORE
I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people. I seem to be very adept at meeting financial planners, attorneys, accountants, etc. - and after 10 seconds of conversation, I'm at a loss. MORE
"Experiment or die, there is no try." " That was my call to action, Yoda inspired, last week to a group of international C-level executives. And I meant every word of it. There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. Ouch! I fundamentally believe that is wrong. MORE
The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Key Performance Indicators! This is a KPI and that is a KPI and "you don't have a KPI, oh my!" " and "look at my KPI it is awesomer than yours!" " and. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said. Tony Wanless, Knowpreneur Consultants November 15, 2008 11:18 AM Raoul Duke said. November 17, 2008 5:48 PM Anonymoussaid. MORE
2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population even used online devices and a mere 8% were deep users of the web. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said. MORE
I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Motoko Hunt. What is your background and what do you do for www.ajpr.com ? MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said. etl.stanford.edu November 10, 2008 2:20 AM Saku said. November 10, 2008 10:45 PM Will said. December 3, 2008 6:42 PM Anonymoussaid. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:25 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric September 19, 2008 2:26 PM Eric said. September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:38 PM Sean Murphy said. September 19, 2008 4:54 PM SkyHammer said. September 20, 2008 7:18 AM Hitchens said. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said. September 24, 2008 12:29 AM Jesse said. September 29, 2008 8:30 AM blake said. October 3, 2008 2:23 PM schubie said. MORE
The dashboards we look at to monitor the health of our products are lagging the experiences our user communities are having. Back and forth flame wars on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere register as “engagement” and high clickthrough on “new comment” mobile notifications. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said. October 20, 2008 11:32 PM Eric said. October 20, 2008 11:40 PM chris said. October 21, 2008 4:33 PM Larry Freeman said. MORE
If you are using a modern web analytics tool (tag based or log based) it is quite likely that it is using cookies for tracking purposes. In my conversations it is embarrassingly common to find a lot of FUD and confusion and lack of understanding (or appreciation of!) MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. December 4, 2008 4:43 PM Valto said. Ive updated the "official" conference bio below but otherwise the text remains unchanged from that original essay.) MORE
Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings. The rest of us signal with lots of other things like links, bookmarking, etc. Not sure I buy this approach from Google MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. October 6, 2008 12:16 AM Vincent van Wylick said. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. October 6, 2008 9:02 AM Eric said. October 6, 2008 9:48 AM Alan Keefer said. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. MORE
Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11). MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ► September (9) ► August (8) ► July (8) ► June (7) ► May (8) ► April (5) ► March (11) ► February (10) ► January (10) ▼ 2008 (59) ► December (6) ► November (14) ► October (10) ▼ September (27) What does a startup CTO actually do? MORE
It will soon be a year of working at Google and milestones are always a good time for introspection. I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal. MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. MORE
The Webware 100 2008 Winners have been announced. For more coverage and the official post see webware. Compared to the 2007 list , there are some differences. Congrats to those that won! Marketing.fm MORE
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Please leave feedback!) I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. MORE
I was merrily using Time on Page and Time on Site metrics for quite some time before I actually realized how they were being measured. It was a real Doh (!) moment. MORE
2008 Related Topics Eric Friedman
APRIL 21, 2008
The Webware 100 2008 Winners have been announced. For more coverage and the official post see webware. Compared to the 2007 list , there are some differences. Congrats to those that won! Marketing.fm
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008!
Up and Running
MAY 10, 2013
2008 may not even seem that long ago to some of you. According to Pew Internet & American Life Project back around 2008, only about ½ the North American population even used online devices and a mere 8% were deep users of the web.
Cracking the Code
JANUARY 28, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008. Happy New Year 2008! The second part of the year has seen a lower flow of blog posts, but part of my 2008 resolutions are to remedy to this shortfall, so be prepared for a strong 2008. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11).
Eric Friedman
NOVEMBER 10, 2008
I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Motoko Hunt. What is your background and what do you do for www.ajpr.com ?
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
Cracking the Code
MAY 15, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ▼ 2008. (11). The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. Happy New Year 2008! Cracking The Code.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. December 4, 2008 4:43 PM Valto said. Ive updated the "official" conference bio below but otherwise the text remains unchanged from that original essay.)
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said. etl.stanford.edu November 10, 2008 2:20 AM Saku said. November 10, 2008 10:45 PM Will said. December 3, 2008 6:42 PM Anonymoussaid.
Hunter Walker
MAY 7, 2018
The dashboards we look at to monitor the health of our products are lagging the experiences our user communities are having. Back and forth flame wars on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere register as “engagement” and high clickthrough on “new comment” mobile notifications.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said. Tony Wanless, Knowpreneur Consultants November 15, 2008 11:18 AM Raoul Duke said. November 17, 2008 5:48 PM Anonymoussaid.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said. October 20, 2008 11:32 PM Eric said. October 20, 2008 11:40 PM chris said. October 21, 2008 4:33 PM Larry Freeman said.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said. September 24, 2008 12:29 AM Jesse said. September 29, 2008 8:30 AM blake said. October 3, 2008 2:23 PM schubie said.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. October 6, 2008 12:16 AM Vincent van Wylick said. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said. October 6, 2008 9:02 AM Eric said. October 6, 2008 9:48 AM Alan Keefer said. Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Key Performance Indicators! This is a KPI and that is a KPI and "you don't have a KPI, oh my!" " and "look at my KPI it is awesomer than yours!" " and.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price.
Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 22, 2008
Admit it, you secretly live in the fear of your Senior Management finding out that your online greatness is less a result of your online campaigns and more a result of the tons and tons your company has invested in the real world. The real world. "Offline"
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 22, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. November 26, 2008 9:23 AM Andrew Meyer said. link] Keep up the great posts, Andy November 29, 2008 10:44 AM life wealth explorer said. December 1, 2008 12:25 PM Alex Horovitz said. December 17, 2008 7:45 PM spirink said.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 21, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. October 21, 2008 11:27 PM David said. October 22, 2008 9:28 AM Nivi said.
Occam's Razor
FEBRUARY 11, 2008
It will soon be a year of working at Google and milestones are always a good time for introspection. I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google.
Occam's Razor
JULY 1, 2008
There is perhaps no challenge greater than tracking offline impact of your online presence (campaigns or other activity). It is perhaps one of the last few complex nuts left to crack. Because it is hard. Not impossible. Just hard. And for now it is equal parts quantitative, qualitative and faith.
Occam's Razor
MARCH 26, 2008
We love our conversion rates. :) Really really. Part of me is glad because my book and the Trinity strategy and the Web Analytics 2.0 mindset all stress the importance of measuring Outcomes. No Outcomes = No Happiness.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. December 2, 2008 8:53 AM Lisa said. December 2, 2008 10:47 AM William Pietri said. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said. December 8, 2008 11:37 PM Jackson Gates said.
Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. I feel like am an Analytics God. What would be your advice for me in terms of next steps for my career?
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 8, 2008
I was merrily using Time on Page and Time on Site metrics for quite some time before I actually realized how they were being measured. It was a real Doh (!) moment.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 6, 2008
I've never been able to walk into a large group of people and feel like I can "work the room." Sure, I've read various articles on this stuff, but honestly, I still struggle with meeting interesting people. I seem to be very adept at meeting financial planners, attorneys, accountants, etc. - and after 10 seconds of conversation, I'm at a loss.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 16, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. December 17, 2008 2:04 PM Alex Horovitz said. December 17, 2008 7:56 PM dmartell said. December 19, 2008 9:02 PM rtolmach said. December 27, 2008 6:46 PM Robin Good said.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Please leave feedback!) I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. December 10, 2008 6:37 AM Anonymoussaid.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 21, 2008
Google now shows me an option to push things in my search results to the top. It's an interesting choice. Doesn't it seem like it's inviting problems. Basically the only people who will spend time on this is people trying to improve their search rankings. The rest of us signal with lots of other things like links, bookmarking, etc. Not sure I buy this approach from Google
Occam's Razor
APRIL 30, 2008
Know the difference between a Reporting Squirrel and a Analysis Ninja? One is in the business of providing data. One is in the business of providing, to use a old fashioned word, information.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ► September (9) ► August (8) ► July (8) ► June (7) ► May (8) ► April (5) ► March (11) ► February (10) ► January (10) ▼ 2008 (59) ► December (6) ► November (14) ► October (10) ▼ September (27) What does a startup CTO actually do?
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:25 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric September 19, 2008 2:26 PM Eric said. September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:38 PM Sean Murphy said. September 19, 2008 4:54 PM SkyHammer said. September 20, 2008 7:18 AM Hitchens said.
Occam's Razor
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
"Experiment or die, there is no try." " That was my call to action, Yoda inspired, last week to a group of international C-level executives. And I meant every word of it. There is a tendency to think experimentation and testing is optional. Ouch! I fundamentally believe that is wrong.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 1, 2008
I went to a meetup yesterday that was on the topic of Internet Marketing / SEO / SEM. The meeting had a decent case study and some pretty good discussion around the room of different tools that you might consider using. Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. It felt like a bad time share presentation.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 1, 2008
As a follow-up to my last post on Meetups SEO / SEM , I was just booted from the group and any of my comments about issues I had with the way the group was handled along with my negative vote about the event were deleted from the group. It makes me wonder if Meetup is actually encouraging this kind of thing
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 Getting started with split-testing One of the startup founders I work with asked me a smart question recently, and I thought Id share it. December 7, 2008 6:05 PM Cupar Garden Centre said. Unlike most of the people whove endured my one-line split-testing talk, this team has taken it to heart. Theyre getting started creating their first A/B tests, and asked "Should we split-test EVERYTHING?"
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen
Occam's Razor
JULY 24, 2008
If you are using a modern web analytics tool (tag based or log based) it is quite likely that it is using cookies for tracking purposes. In my conversations it is embarrassingly common to find a lot of FUD and confusion and lack of understanding (or appreciation of!)
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