Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. 9comments: Back office services said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Design for Continuous Deployment – [link]. A good culture avoids these dangers: Eight Dangers of Collaboration – [link]. Don’t Be A Free User – [link]. Cheap Willl Be Smart. Expensive Will Be Dumb – [link]. Klout, My Story & Why Opting Out Was My Only Choice – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Doing the market test required this blog, a SurveyMonkey account and a PayPal account - and nothing else. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Dont fall for it - its a trap. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But its lethal when we start to run the company using vanity metrics as a guide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Perhaps put the comments button by itself?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Good stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Much of what Ive learned over the years has been invested in this blog, and that makes creating a sweeping summation challenging. And, as Ive said many times on this blog, if it werent for those colossal failures and embarrassing missteps, Id never have learned anything of significance. Your blog is full of stuff I wanted to learn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Conduct constant focus groups and usability tests.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This post would be more coherent if we were able to understand in more detail what the platform features were that were changed, especially as in the SL context, "adult verification" produced a whopping 4,400 votes against it on the P-JIRA features proposal device, and numerous protest groups, actions, blogs, boycotts, etc.

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