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Why Continuous Deployment?

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

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for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

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What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. This has led to exponential growth.

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

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If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# It was written by Sarah Milstein in collaboration with kaChing CEO Andy Rachleff.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

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Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. If you would like to talk about this at a Bootstrapper Breakfast ( [link] ) I think you would find a receptive audience. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.