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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

The site is now a sad footnote in the history of Social Networking Services. For example, think of the phases of the synthesis framework: collecting feedback, processing and understanding it, choosing a new course of action. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But none of that happened.

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

My responsibility at the time I joined the company was to develop a product that is to be deployed on a social network (hint hint, FB). 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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Engagement loops: beyond viral

Startup Lessons Learned

Facebook , LinkedIn , and other successful social networks have elevated this technique to a high art. But I think the value in this framework is that it can help make overall business decisions that require thinking about the whole rather than just one of the parts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework. You make me think of something I've been pondering for a while but haven't been able to articulate: the realignment of company and "customer" in the age of pervasive social networks and innovation.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking. 15comments: chrislunt said.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.