Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. So far, so good.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). There are too many products clamoring for attention. Test-marketing is now easier than ever before, thanks to leveraged distribution channels like AdWords and Facebook. Is that a lot?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The blog is fantastic as well. January 23, 2009 4:13 PM TS said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In other words, the service transforms tweets into professional reports that are sent by snail mail, fax, and email - the channels that actually have attention paid to them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. He was at todays event, and the Geeks on a Plane had a brainstorm.

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Those who have tried to build apps that exist just as glorified landing pages or marketing channels have generally failed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. once it launches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 31, 2009

My overwhelming takeaway from the most recent Lessons Learned survey is that there is tremendous hunger out there for in-depth opportunities for entrepreneurs of all stripes to develop their lean startup skills. As you can tell from recent posts, Ive been experimenting with different formats and channels to try and find the best way to help.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Know someone whod make a great engineer at a startup? Maybe location-specific "channels"? I'm finding many people coming to me with jobs, not to offer to me necessarily, but to say, "hey do you know any good designer/engineer/product person looking for a new opportunity?" Function-specific?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

There are other models, in other distribution channels. After Ive built my first successful app, and all kinds of competitors have copied me and have similar apps right next to mine in the store, how will I continue to get new customers? Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Blake Engel said.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. So dont combine your product launch with a marketing launch. Instead, do your product launch first. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Dont scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? And others require an early product prototype. The level of engineering quality will vary. And others require an early product prototype.

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MARCH 24, 2009

As notification channels get stuffed full of these messages, customers tune them out (or platforms have to put in place dramatic limits on access). The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. the fatigue rate of customers in that notification channel 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Because the book is chock-full of examples of how to do this in older industries, I will focus on my experience integrating NPS into an online service, although it should be noted that it works equally well if your primary contact with customers is through a different channel, such as the telephone. is usually asked on a 0-10 point scale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

In fact, you cant go through traditional channels at all. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention. People arrive on the forums because they've tried going through the "proper channels" to no avail. It has channels to speak to but they continue to be closed and frankly rather rude.

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