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

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

Even more so than pricing, reviews and location proximity. These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills). Custom development. Branding was the biggest driver of clicks on given search results.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lets start with a distinction between shipping new software to the customer, and changing the customers experience. The idea is that often you can change the customers experience without shipping them new software at all. Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost.

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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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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? They want to do activities.