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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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On deployment

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

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(<30 sec) Write your local newspaper & tell them you support the Startup Visa Act Call your senators & let them know you support Startup Visa legislation Add the Startup Visa Widget to your blog or website Follow the #startupvisa hash tag on Twitter and voice your support Contribute to Startup Visa so we can spread the word!

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Startup Visa update

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

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When I first started writing this blog, I made a promise to myself that I would spend more time on the content of the essays than on layout and fancy widgets. Why Continuous Deployment? * Validated learning about customers * 8.0 Validated learning about customers * 8.0 As for top posts we have: * 10.0

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Whenever you have code that is un-deployed or un-integrated, its helpful to think of it as a huge stack of not-yet-installed parts in a widget factory. Continuous integration is a technique for reducing those piles of code. Step 1: get a continuous integration server. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.