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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the ultimate startup discipline, the hardest to master, and the one that pays biggest dividends. If you can embrace continuous improvement from day one, you can actually speed up as you scale. This is the ultimate startup discipline, the hardest to master, and the one that pays biggest dividends.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, in most prevention situations, even the first few steps in prevention can pay time-savings dividends quickly. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Fortunately, my co-founders are also engineers and understand the need for some of the stuff I do. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Share what you learn.