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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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This is precisely why MakeSpace is growing so rapidly in its core markets: New York, Chicago and Washington DC where they can literally come and pick up your furniture and move it away and you never had to visit a facility and they do this at a cheaper price than incumbents by centralizing the location and thus having cheaper infrastructure costs.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. One last note on reporting.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. Great post, very educational. Great piece!

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. Third, you market it far and wide. Hello Eric, Great post. Good Post.

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How I Found a Great CTO

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I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot? In that I see opportunity.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer.