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

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Enable Google Analytics tracking. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said.

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Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review)

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

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kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. How’d it happen? How’d it happen?

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Datablindness

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 16, 2008 How to Usability Test your Site for Free Noah Kagan has a great discussion of usability testing which can help get you over the "thats too hard" or "thats too expensive" fear. At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. -A Foursquare.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. If the innovation is successful, then the metrics should help drive the enhancement into the top/right "agile happy place" quadrant. Top Five Tools of BigData Analytics. Simple Agile Product Development. ► 2008. (21).

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