Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Giving rise to three verbs: Implement (programming!) Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? where we turn ideas into code the best way possible.

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world? SolidWorks 3: The best VAR management program in the world? Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Ive been even more impressed by the various Greasemonkey compilers out there, that let you turn a Greasemonkey script into a full-blown Firefox extension, for easy distribution. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Amazon PostRank

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 131

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Developer Continuous Deployment DC 68

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Marketers following this practice start with a hypothesis, design and run an experiment, and interpret results to fuel future experiments. The growth marketer would design and run an experiment (ideating, drafting, and sending the email), and then review the data to confirm or disprove the hypothesis.

Framework 102

Framework Marketing Acquisition Retention 102

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. Usability design is a highly iterative process, and the more customers who are involved (via in-person interview, split-test experiment, etc) the better. Do you do hallway usability testing? I strongly disagree. for Harvard Business Revie.

Software Review 144

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 144

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

"In a phase change the things that made you successful before don't work anymore" It's tough to cross the chasm without "being remarkable" The distribution and word-of-mouth or word-of-mail that results from being remarkable can sometimes be the difference between crossing the chasm, or falling in and never getting out.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? SEM is a simple idea. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

SEM 164

SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.). How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. More of the same.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 76

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

Distribution 74

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to program your DVR remotely. When I am sitting at my desktop at work with the browser open and high-speed bandwidth at my fingertips and want to program my DVR, I pick up my iPhone. Design takes on a greater role.

Mobile 96

Mobile SEM SEO Technical Review 96

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In other words, multivariate tests are like A/B/n tests in that they test an original against variations, but each variation contains different design elements. But if you have enough traffic, you should use both types of tests in your optimization program. Here’s how: Use A/B testing to determine the best layouts. Andrew Anderson.

Analytics 127

Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Not because they didn’t want to do Pay-per-click (they are huge buyers of SEM) but because they didn’t want other people to know what they paid for clicks! GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. I recently created robust user personas for CXL Institute (on inspiration from a course in our CRO certification program taught by Stefania Mereu and Eric Taylor ), and it went well.

Software Review 115

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 115

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

What it is: AdWords is Google’s advertising program. This often happens because many small business owners don’t fully understand the many ways they can customize and leverage their AdWords marketing programs. Also, there are numerous resources available for Google Docs, such as wireframing templates for web designers.

Small Business 102

Small Business Analytics Social Media Search 102

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

More About Ryan Stewart: Work with Ryan at Ryan Stewart Consulting – [link] Explore Ryan’s training program, The Blueprint Training – [link] Connect with Ryan on Youtube – [link] Get Your Free AI Prompts To Build A Marketing Strategy: Download now Like this show? 22:02] Where can people learn more about your work?

Channel 63

Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 63

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do? for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? Have you instituted a referral program? Instituting some sort of reward for the top referrers and nada for everyone else is a bit cheesy in my opinion, but can work for more lightweight programs such as email list referrals. Have you instituted a gifting program?

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. I recently created robust user personas for CXL Institute (on inspiration from a course in our CRO certification program taught by Stefania Mereu and Eric Taylor ), and it went well. Artistic and Aspirational Alex…?

Software Review 102

Software Review Design Agile Analytics 102

Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2016

If most of your clients are generated by way of referral, then by golly start there, build multiple referral programs and look to use channels such as partnering and content to amplify how you get referrals. Ambassador – Online referral program, starts at $200/mo. How to Build a Referral Program into Your Online Business.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Social Media Public Relations Channel 28

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system.

Open Source 107

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 107

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In other words, multivariate tests are like A/B/n tests in that they test an original against variations, but each variation contains different design elements. But if you have enough traffic, you should use both types of tests to maximize the output of your optimization program. PPC/SEM campaign. High tempo testing , yeah?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Analytics Framework Software Review 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Most engineers are terrible visual designers, but if the designer on their team is struggling, maybe they can help out with an icon or two. And wait until you see a "non-technical" designer writing simple code to try and speed up a release. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? But making decisions on the basis of myths is dangerous territory. How did we combat this tendency? Amazon PostRank

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

A second idea is that less is more in product design: A key tenet of the philosophy is that uncluttered products with fewer, better features are preferred to similar products with more features. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

Product Development 68

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 68

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2021

Designing collateral and assets for social media. Create and distribute content on key channels to reach new audiences. Demonstrable experience with social media marketing, email marketing, advertising campaigns, marketing databases and analytics, and SEO/SEM. Creating content for publishing on your blog.

Hiring 79

Hiring Management Marketing Social Media 79

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma. for Harvard Business Revie. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68