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Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware

Startup Lessons Learned

The key to understanding Lean Startup is to recognize two things: Lean Startup techniques confer maximum benefit in the upper-right quadrant, namely high market uncertainty coupled with fast cycle time. It is written by Ronald Mannak, who is currently the CEO of a startup named Yobble. What follows are solely his opinions.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I just came across this post.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. Building on this, I’ve recently become fascinated with the notion of continuous deployment , a concept that has been popularized by Eric Ries and others. Read the rest.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. 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: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. From the point of view of the caller of the function, they just pass in the name of the experiment and its various hypotheses. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.