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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

More agile competitors are starting to eat into our business. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. The strategy and structure for 21st corporate innovation will come from emulating the speed, urgency, agility and low-cost, rapid experimentation of startups. What Drives Innovation?

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Starting with Facebook s developer program, social networks are all jumping on the apps bandwagon. Those apps are generating even more page views, making it quite affordable to buy application installs (which is a cost-per-action ad that requires the user to install the app before the action is considered complete). Expo SF (May.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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Startup Resources

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IP Location Tools. tells you how much adwords cost. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile eLearning.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. In the end, we managed to repair the damage, but only after losing a lot of time and at significant opportunity cost. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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