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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Other publishers had similar issues , as Taneth Evans , Head of Audience Development at The Times in London, detailed: There were too many flaws with the model to participate, so the business opted out. The downside of this method—if you use AMP—is that the article can be read on Google’s AMP cache. hard sell for diet pills).

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5 UX Hacks That Can Immediately Increase Revenue

ConversionXL

Difficulty level = hard (but not for a developer). Instead, Cache The Collected Data. As form information is entered, cache it in the form fields, so shopper’s don’t have to retype it; speeding up the checkout process. Cache all user collected data, both for speed and to remove frustration. Source: Amazon.com.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) Unintended Lessons » 6 Responses Twitter Trackbacks for Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank [steveblank.com] on Topsy.com , on September 24, 2009 at 7:19 am Said: [.]

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WordPress Scalability on AWS – High Availability WordPress

The Startup Magazine

First, you launch a product and think WP is a good short-time solution, but suddenly the website rockets and there is no time to worry about WordPress scalability and develop a new one while the current one can’t handle the amount of customers emerging every day. Vertical Scalability. Mostly vertical scaling has problems of its own.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

Unintended Lessons « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/09/28/unintended-lessons – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

In the meantime we are narrowing our focus to three verticals (bioinformatics, connected devices, security/fraud) and are choosing our clients very carefully to tell the best success stories we can. This approach practically eliminates the need to have a database, a data warehouse, a batch layer or a speed layer.