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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." 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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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

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Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

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I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# 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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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

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But that’s not to say that every established company developing personal grooming products is operating risk-free. Oh, and your salespeople have to make sure bookstores will stock it, and your marketing and PR people will have to make sure readers know it exists. in ten years? Ok, nobody has asked this question yet.

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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Companies want the coverage, but they don’t actually want to reveal anything useful about their operations. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger.

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Speak at the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

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Publicists and those seeking PR and media attention should look elsewhere. * It''s NOT about running a small company or a shoestring operation (though those can be smart things to do!) Or describe tactics that you’ve refined in an innovative way--say, a new take on A/B testing or continuous deployment. * Seriously. *

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes.