Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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. Start an AdWords campaign. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click. We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Think of it as micropayments for beta testers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

You can build a mobile app for senior citizens, launch a Facebook campaign targeting Fortune 100 CEOs, or charge $25 for a food cart hamburger if you’d like, but the mismatch between product, tactic, pricing and segment might delay that Hawaiian vacation you’ve been planning. Or perhaps you need to chum (freemium) the waters a bit?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. Here’s Andrew Chen’s description : “it strikes me that consumer internet companies often don’t care much whether or not they have viable businesses in the short run. Sorry about that.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

I managed to convince myself that the solution to all of our companys problems were contained in that book, and that if we just faithfully executed a marketing campaign around the principles therein, wed solve everything. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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