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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., Veritas , the team building a low cost, residential wind turbine. Worse yet, each of these clicks cost about a $1.00.

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

After BlazeMeter) With BlazeMeter it is very easy, low-cost and still enterprise-grade. added costs). It will cost you about $160. Our marketing efforts are focused on content marketing and SEM. Before BlazeMeter) Large-scale load testing was complicated, expensive and time consuming.

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