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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. In a previous post , I covered the three main drivers of growth: Paid, Sticky, and Viral. And this is true outside of games.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish credibility with potential partners. In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. before you launch.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. 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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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.