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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. It was absolutely worth it. It was absolutely worth it.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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The Lean Entrepreneur is here

Startup Lessons Learned

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Telecom O2 learning to move at the speed of the internet 500 Startups and their accelerated feedback loops on what works, and what doesn't work in early-stage investing.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. What is customer development?

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

To imagine that this person does so only to get attention, or only to harass others, or only to harass you are to play into the hands of this geek autocracy on the Internet that just isn't viable anymore. However, you have opened yourself onto the internet with some really great points that are so wonderful to see written.

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