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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. If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in This adds to the complexity of decision making since you dont know its the ad, sales page, product, keywords and so on.

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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. This is usually exacerbated by zealous sales persons who oversell the features, or even more typical, promise completely new features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

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. This is the ultimate startup discipline, the hardest to master, and the one that pays biggest dividends. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.