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How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step

Get started with a detailed guide to three key lean startup techniques: continuous deployment, rapid split-testing, and root cause analysis (five why's). This webcast will cover the theory of how lean startups work, implementation details, and case studies. Participants will come away with a specific plan of action for how to apply these techniques to their product, company, or startup.

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Jack Dangermond Interview 2 of 3: Sharing Government GIS Data

Jack Dangermond is the founder and CEO of ESRI. ESRI's software is used by every level of government around the world. You can see ESRI's influence in online mapping tools from Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and FortiusOne. I had the opportunity to interview him over the phone on April 20, 2009. In this portion of the interview we discuss the history...

Stupid CSS Trick

I've always has a Platonic relationship with CSS. You know, the kind where you see the shadows on the wall and you try to infer what is casting it. Lately, I've been forced to use CSS more and more, and...

The Goodness of Artificial Milestones

A friend of mine in startup-land had a really important meeting with a prospective partner. Knowing the one-shot nature of these things, he literally moved mountains in just a few days, achieving a transformational milestone for his fledgling, early-stage company. How did he do it? Read on...

Four short links: 29 Apr 2009

Moot Wins, Time Inc. Loses -- summary of how the 4chan group Anonymous rigged the voting in Time's 100 Most Influential poll to not just put their man at the top, but also spell an in-joke with the initial letters of the first 21 people. Time tried weakly to prevent the vote-rigging, and ReCAPTCHA gave the Internet scalliwags their...

Effectively Providing Alternate Content for a Flash Application

Flash has an undeserved bad wrap in the Search Engine Optimization world. Some SEO experts even warn not to use Flash, because many search engines have trouble indexing Flash content. While Flash content is searchable by Google, it's critical to use Flash wisely if you want your applications to be searchable by all search engines.

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Upcoming Events

Jeff Eaton at CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference
Apr 30-May 1, 2009
Hotel Orrington
Evanston, IL

Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step
May 1, 2009

Secrets of Digital Night Photography Workshop with Harold Davis
May 2, 2009
Historic Coastguard Boathouse
Point Reyes, CA

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