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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. If you cant deploy to 5% of the nodes and check the results, then how would you accomplish continuous deployment? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. False negatives would be an issue, but combining ad words with other forms of advertising, such as guerrilla marketing, might yield a more robust answer. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. As far as they are concerned, thats eBays job.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

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I am so sick of your tweets it's advertising 24/7. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Pivot, don't jump to a new vision Why Continuous Deployment?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

More often This logic can be extrapolated to the web world to mean: more users, visiting your site more often, for longer amounts of time to maximize advertising exposure. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Buy a higher quantity 2. of higher priced items 3. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,