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25 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

Photo credit: Jenna Green. Thanks to Jenna Green, Moscow Muled ! #9- The sense of triumph that comes with navigating a project through the identification of a problem and a solution to the development of a business that succeeds is incredible. Thanks to Alexandra Zamolo, BEEKEEPER ! #8- 8- Giving back to the community.

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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. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. One last note on reporting.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. What made them exceptional?

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2017

Hearpreneur

This past year was not without its challenges, between product development, production and gaining publicity, but receiving national coverage and hearing just how much our customers believe in our message has made the journey all the more worthwhile. I’m proud of the awesome new products we were able to offer customers in 2017.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

You set up a web app to put volunteers in touch with after-school programs which already exist, already have safe places and supervisory staff, and which need computers, and then the people with the old computers to give away put the computers in boxes and mail them to the after-school programs. May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

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This I Believe: A Manifesto for a Magnificent Career

Occam's Razor

My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. Sometimes the overlap between green and orange is huge, and it has very little blue. With the web, there are so many avenues to express your passion. Find an outlet to build your own passion platform.