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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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The Optimizer’s Guide to Web Accessibility

ConversionXL

perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust (in terms of compatible assistive technologies). Make Web pages appear and operate in predictable ways. site authoring, multimedia authoring, blog authoring, wiki authoring) more accessible. Aggregate and report the findings, and calculate overall scores. Guideline 2.4:

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. How does that stack up? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Teten question: What will the impact be of deal aggregating websites (Axialmarket, MergerID, PE-Nexus, PEGBASE, CapitalSphere, DealMarket, BizBuySell,) on the investment banking industry? Intermediaries. Financials (e.g., Join the right clubs.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.