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

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. It would carefully monitor their behavior, and especially their technical metrics, like crashes and freezes. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Dear E, so good to come across this. I had wondered about your whereabouts :-).

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

This is lean development without any customer development. Creating quick buzz and social proof is not the same a developing long-term customer development, but it pays off. A good way to get attention is to get catchy metrics. The focus is on building. Think of yourself as a VC.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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