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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear.

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How We Fight – Cofounders in Love and War

Steve Blank

She suggested that how cofounders fight was a key metric in predicting the success of a founding team. Are you fighting about whether a button should be green or blue or are you fighting about whether or not you want to raise money? Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. What Are You Fighting About?

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, this content-less decision-making process is inhibiting the ability of media companies to develop interesting new content at the very time when this supposed expertise should serve as their one true competitive advantage. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Not all programmers are entrepreneurs, granted there are exceptions. Good Post.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

This week the team started investigating whether the spectral reflectance curves of healthy green plants are different from weeds, and if so could an infrared Hyperspectral imaging camera be better suited than their current visible light camera for weed/plant recognition. What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model?

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KQED Forum + conference update + a chance to win tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

No, this is not a marketing gimmick; we've already had to reduce the size of the stage (and eliminate my personal gold-plated green room) in order to make more seats available. And Red Room founder/CEO Ivory Madison on popular metrics that everyone should stop using. And Tendai Charisika on creative ways to get out of the building.

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