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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Hard lessons lead to success – the story of RealLead

Up and Running

That’s when Chad Barczak and Jeff Kast came along and asked if she’d like to join them in starting RealLead , a mobile marketing lead capture tool and lead marketplace for buying and selling real estate leads. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. great article Seth, powerful insight for those curious [link] Manish Jain Great advice: In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person. If so, drop me an email at s10.oleynik

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CXL Live 2018 Recap: Top 5 Lessons from Each Speaker

ConversionXL

How many emails do you get cc’d or bcc’d on? email: use data to send highly personalized message by pulling data from across sources (e.g. Ezra Firestone – What Works in Email Marketing Right Now. Email & ads are the 2 big communication channels. On avg $1 spent on email returns $38. Corporate Agility.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

I definitely agree you shouldn’t get caught up on the URL , as there are endless ways of getting a good url to relate well to your biz or product. However, I do think a good amount of thought should be put in to the name of a product or biz. . it should relate to your product directly or indirectly. 27 Apr 10. 27 Apr 10.

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CXL Live 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

Optimizing email, social, etc., Ryan Thomas: “Optimizing for Email Signups”. Email capture can sometimes work against your primary goals Ex. When someone joins an email course or downloads a lead magnet, ask them point blank. What do you need to get from this email course?”) Why are we always focusing on the web?