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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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On deployment

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And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

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Whenever you have code that is un-deployed or un-integrated, its helpful to think of it as a huge stack of not-yet-installed parts in a widget factory. Continuous integration is a technique for reducing those piles of code. Step 1: get a continuous integration server. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Video update on the Startup Visa Act

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 29, 2010 Video update on the Startup Visa Act The Startup Visa Act continues to gain momentum on Capitol Hill, thanks to grassroots support of all of you. They feature two of the rock stars of the Startup Visa team, Shervin and Brad, looking like, well, rock stars.

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Startup Visa update

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Your support has been critical to everything thats happened with Startup Visa.

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Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL)

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) Its official: Startup Lessons Learned has passed the one-year mark. When I first started writing this blog, I made a promise to myself that I would spend more time on the content of the essays than on layout and fancy widgets.