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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

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Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

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Of course both companies use their platform to increase user lock-in which indirectly helps their core revenue streams of advertising (in Facebook’s case) and hardware sales (for Apple). But we arguably have never seen a true software platform which drives a core advertising business, in the way Facebook does. Author howerl.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

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Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. False negatives would be an issue, but combining ad words with other forms of advertising, such as guerrilla marketing, might yield a more robust answer. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

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Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. As far as they are concerned, thats eBays job.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

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Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.