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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It strokes your ego.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

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Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

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It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Like Continuous Deployment, whereby IMVU deployed changes to their web application +50 times per day, BetaBrand's aim is to put out a new product every day. Not an online clothing catalog, mind you, but a clothing company.

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Building a new startup hub

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Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. Articulate, inspirational.

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

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In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. First of all, why split-test?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. That leads to cashing many checks.

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