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Applying lean startup to a business with paying customers is harder than starting lean from scratch. What EditMe taught me about revisiting settled assumptions.
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At EditMe we built an AARRR dashboard in raw SQL with no BI tool. What implementing pirate metrics on a real product taught me about measuring what matters.
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HubSpots adoption of lean was not a top-down mandate. It started in specific teams and spread because it demonstrably worked.
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At Awareness Inc I inherited 60,000 contacts and a sales team that ignored all of them. What fixing the marketing and sales alignment actually required.
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In 2010 I built one of the largest Lean Startup Circle chapters in the country. In 2011 Eric Ries came to Boston. What building the community taught me.
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At PermissionTV, detailed wireframes kept producing features users did not need. The problem was treating UX artifacts as deliverables instead of hypotheses.
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