Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Do the engineers understand what they are building? And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. Do they measure?

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. If and when a good SEM solution shows up for iPhone, you may be able to use it to artificially drive your app into the Top 25, as a one-time event. Or if your lifetime value is high enough, you can just keep spending on SEM.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Ive told the story of how this desperation turned us on to Google AdWords in SEM on five dollars a day. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pretty soon we ran out of friends.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98