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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. 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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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. In traditional marketing there are three main objectives. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Buy a higher quantity 2.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

These problems can be anything: development mistakes, site outages, marketing program failures, or even internal missed schedules. Luckily, in most prevention situations, even the first few steps in prevention can pay time-savings dividends quickly. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. Eric - There is definitely a business/marketing analog to exactly this situation that happens a lot too. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.