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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

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. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. From the point of view of the caller of the function, they just pass in the name of the experiment and its various hypotheses. Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already.

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Interview: Randy Peterson – SES 2008 San Jose Q&A

Eric Friedman

I have worked for the last 8 years on various Interactive Marketing Roles at P&G, not only in the US but also in Japan and other Asian locations. Domain names seem to be in the news lately, especially the new.me and.pro names. What is one area you would like to see people spend more time on when looking at SEM analytics?