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

Startup Lessons Learned

One day, we became convinced that a killer app for IMVU would be to sell a presidential debate bundle, where our customers could put on a Bush or Kerry avatar, and then engage in mock debates with each other. It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Expo SF (May.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Thanks for the comments.

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Lessons Learned: Lean startups vs lean companies

Startup Lessons Learned

Everything else (including a lot of traditional "agile" or "lean" tactics) is waste. Toyota employs something called "set-based product development" where they develop multiple versions of a product at once. Imagine developing three versions of a web site in Prototype, JQuery, and Flash -- all at the same time.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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