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

Startup Lessons Learned

Dont worry about selecting particularly good keywords, if youre new to SEM. SEM only gets at one segment of users, and for a brand new product, you presumably need some skill at marketing in general and adsense in particular to get any useful info. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Just put in your credit card.

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) After that you’ve become a battle-hardened realist.

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5 Tips For Startups To Win With Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

When it comes to social media for your business, expect a high learning curve, but rest assured it’s not rocket science. Your plan should include a well-designed web site, events, press releases, and search engine marketing (SEM). Don’t forget the metrics and analytics. You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. The rest can believe what they want. the most sensible SEM advice Ive read - discussed in the context of a real situation. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Instead, do your product launch first.

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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The 10 / 90 Rule for Magnificent Web Analytics Success

Occam's Razor

Numerous studies have pointed out that while almost all Fortune 500 companies have great investments in "Web Analytics" they still struggle to make any meaningful business decisions. Here it what it says…… Our Goal: Highest value from Web Analytics implementation. The rule works quite simply.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

and if a web-based product, a minimum feature set,) all delivered in 10 weeks. Each week will be new adventure as you test each part of your business model and then share the hard earned knowledge with the rest of the class. Teams that select a web-based product will have to build the site for the class.

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