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

Startup Lessons Learned

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. Please leave feedback!)

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. While reading this article Ive been thinking about my role as "CTO". Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. Great article! Wow I think you just wrote my job description for me. Great post, very educational.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Since we hadnt shown him much in the way of progress recently, we actually brought in the article to show off. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Great article. excellent article although it breaks the whole concept of Launch now worry later. what happens when newspapers call you for an article?

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Read some articles, liked what I saw. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. How did you hear about it?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Thanks for writing this article. I saw you speak yesterday at the FB garage and it reminded me of this article. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Great post Eric!