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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. For example, its always nice to have someone constantly optimizing your SEM accounts, driving down your CPA. This has led to exponential growth. Expo SF (May.

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How to Choose Digital Marketing Channels for Long Term Growth

ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

It doesn’t help that there’s a new blog post out every day about how you’re missing out on [X] and this company is killing it by doing [Y]. You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. iPullRank Blog. Litmus blog.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Great blog! What are the characteristics of a lean startup?

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

Customer Development

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

Software Review

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Split-test experiments that go on forever?

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco Developer Continuous Deployment DC

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

And since I have a blog, I have a way to ask questions directly to you. Heres what I want to know: First of all, the NPS question : On a scale of 1-10 (where 10 is most likely), how likely is it that you you would recommend this blog to a friend or colleague? Eric, great blog. How annoying!) How did you hear about it?

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Is it too self-referential to post a blog entry about someone elses blog entry about how often to write a blog entry ? His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) But Seth Godin is a great writer, so I dont see why I cant crib from him whenever.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. But along the way, something strange happened. And what about if deployment takes forever? Great piece!

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

As Seth writes this week in Seths Blog: Listening to the loud people , the most aggressive customers arent necessarily the ones you want to hear from. Thanks Eric, your blog has many golden nuggets!!! Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: continuous deployment 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

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Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC Lean

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

thanks for the mention:) September 17, 2008 11:56 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

as is your beginning to blog. :) September 9, 2008 1:32 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) .

San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

December 23, 2009 6:17 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

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. Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad. Step 2: Write your survey and send it to your audience. They can be utilized across teams— UX , CRO, social media, SEM, SEO , etc.,

Software Review

Software Review Design Agile Analytics

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad. They can be utilized across teams – UX, CRO, Social Media, SEM, SEO, etc., Plan your audience in this step. But it’s fast, effective, and data-backed.

Software Review

Software Review Design Agile Analytics

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. OH>>> they can, since i have an ezine and blog, too. And, as well talk about in a moment, you dont get a second chance.

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you sell an online service that solves a defined problem, you can compete in SEO or SEM. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. Expo SF (May.

Open Source San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. No fancy tools needed here — it’s about the mentality, attention to detail, and the actions that foster agile development, not the tools & systems you set up in place to facilitate this. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco SCRUM Lean Continuous Deployment

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 29, 2008 Q&A with an actual reader One of my favorite things about having a blog is the feedback I get in comments and by email. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Expo SF (May.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Labels: product development 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) . Expo SF (May.

Product Development

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product