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Beware of the HiPPOs, by Hugh Molotsi
Hugh Molotsi explains why Intuit avoids HiPPO decisions, taken on the highest paid person's opinion, like the hippo, the most dangerous animal of the …
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Apple’s original iPhone was a minimum viable product
Elia Freedman answers Redfin's CEO Glenn Kelman, who blamed the lean startup for killing big ideas: the first iPhone was itself a minimum viable product …
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Bootstrap your content marketing in 7 steps, by Omar Mohout
Omar Mohout (Sirris) sums up in a short deck how a startup can build a lean content marketing machine in seven steps, on a shoestring budget.
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The case for corporate disobedience
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, in Harvard Business Review (June 2014): you can't really innovate without bending the rules. Companies gain from leaving room …
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Writer as coder: the iterative way to write a book
Leo Babauta (Zen Habits) wrote his book Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change the way software is built: a « minimum viable book » written chapter by …
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Beyond the MVP: the minimum loveable product, by Laurence McCahill
Laurence McCahill (Spook Studio) proposes the minimum loveable product: rather than the version that brings the most learning for the least effort, aim …
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How to use surveys to learn from your customers
Too often I have seen entrepreneur trying to understand their customer need by sending them … a survey. “Please rank those feature in order of …
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How to avoid delusional thinking in startup growth strategy
Aaron Schildkrout, co-founder of HowAboutWe, a dating service acquired by IAC, in a guest post on Andrew Chen's blog: early founders' growth plans are …
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Lessons from game design, by Christina Wodtke
Christina Wodtke's talk « Mechanics of Magic: Seven Lessons from Game Design » (66 minutes): gamification, with badges and progress bars stuck on …
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You’re right, they’re wrong, but they won (Seth Godin)
Seth Godin: when the others win although they are wrong, it is often because they took the time to build a movement, showed up again and again, told a …
