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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

In recent years, weve also got great new options all up and down the stack, in particular things like Amazon EC2 and RightScale (none of which would be possible without the free software movement). At the application-stack layer, I see LAMP + Danga as the most common combination. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – COO, VP of Business Development, Online Marketing Director

This is going to be BIG.

We are also one of the stickiest sites on the internet. Our team dabbles in everything from S3 and EC2 cloud services to SIMD and assembly code. We are one of the fastest growing game and kid sites in 2009, according to comScore. Each month over 2 million unique visitors come to our site. We have a deep technology stack.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Internet investor Dave McClure coined the acronym &# AARRR ,&# to remember the parts of Customer Relationships on the web.). Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc.,

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. We aim to sell through direct internet sales.

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