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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. Just as Erin mentions above -- replace content with games -- the same dynamics are at work in the advertising world. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers.

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