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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. What They Do: Travel search engine. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. I’m pleased to now turn to Kayak’s S-1 filing.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

acquired 5min Media, the world’s leading video syndication network with a library of more than 200,000 categorized, tagged and rated videos from more than 1,000 of the world’s largest media companies and professional independent video producers. the New York-based Internet company spun off from Time Warner Inc., in August 2010.

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How to Curate Sitelinks to Increase Conversions

ConversionXL

If you rely on search engine traffic, conversion optimization starts before visitors get to your site. How do search engines choose sitelinks? Bill Slawski, who monitors search engine patents, summarizes the likely factors : How many times the page has been accessed. For most sites, a brand query (e.g.

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Transcript of How to Turn Marketing Costs Into Profit

Duct Tape Marketing

The difference in the two that you mentioned … I realize this is semantics at some level, but the two that you mentioned are channel based, right? There’s no strategic method — You can say there’s a strategic methodology behind it depending, again it is semantics. Robert Rose: No. They wanted to do a show daily.

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