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

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Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. Depending on the type of product, postings on forums, classifieds and emails could give enough information to help gauge potential response.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Feel free to email me (startuplessonslearned-eric@sneakemail.com). Sure, Id be delighted to.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Good stuff.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

If you have a minute, post your answers in a comment, or email me. I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). Examples, theory, practical advice, links to books, counter-intuitive thinking.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. If so, I might have something that can help with more of a grass roots effort1 Or email me at rush1527@yahoo.com March 14, 2009 11:25 AM Maria Marsala, EduCoach said. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. Dont scale. Great article.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Id also recommend Cal Hendersons (flickr) presentations (and book), e.g. [link] And - of course - going through [link] and reading up on the various different approaches different companies have (successfully) taken towards getting scalability at reasonably low cost. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.