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Keeping It Simple

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Do You Believe in Magic?

[http://www.iamcharliegraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sparkles.jpg] [http://www.iamcharliegraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sparkles.jpeg] I have been helping a few startups try to reach product-market-fit and have encountered a common theme: everyone is too tactical. Discussions quickly digress into incremental benefits and features. Attend

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Technical Debt -- when to deal with it?

One of the key themes In the upcoming presidential election is what should we do with the US fiscal debt. Some argue we should stop everything to pay it down right now; others think we should put our resources into improving the economy and then pay it down later when

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First Impressions

At Shop It To Me, we are constantly experimenting. It’s one of our core values. In fact, as of this morning, we have 24 different A/B experiments running on different parts of our site. Each week we probably add anywhere from 1-5 new experiments to our testing pool

Focus: What is your product going to be awesome at?

One of the most important things to do when you are building a product of any size is to focus. Pick the few things you are going to be amazing at and the many things you will not be. It’s hard, but it’s the only way to succeed.

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How we celebrate the little things

Running a startup is definitely an emotional roller-coaster ride. You are going to have really good days (like when you are featured on The Today Show [http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11744571-what-to-wear-to-summer-weddings?lite] ) and a bunch of down days as well. Your product development will