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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. There are too many products clamoring for attention.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Go on an agile diet quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Great post!

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, So far, so good. Expo SF (May.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? A successful startup strives for this latter case. Expo SF (May.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 16, 2010 Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium (Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. What prompted the process change?

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them.