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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

He headed to the local community college to take some general classes and get ready to restart. In 2006, together with Hiten Shah, Neil founded Crazy Egg, a heatmap platform for websites to use to increase their conversion rates. Try, Try Again. Neil’s next step was to go back to school. Finally, his luck began to turn.

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Is Entrepreneurship in Your DNA?

Duct Tape Marketing

They work with brands in retail, technology, financial services, wireless and with associations. They work with brands in retail, technology, financial services, wireless and with associations.

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Startup Communities – Building Regional Clusters

Steve Blank

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. These events are a good proxy for the health and depth of a startup community.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

I just got back from a week in Israel having spent some time in Jerusalem for an Answers board meeting and then making my way to the Ohalo Resort on the Sea of Galilee for Kinnernet 2006. Kinnernet was great and I had a blast, made many new friends, and came away clearly impressed with Israel’s thriving and talented startup community.

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How to Improve Governance for Your Hospital Board

Board Effect

The Integrated Governance Handbook of 2016 updates the 10 years of progress since the publication of the 2006 Handbook. According to the NHS, good governance designates clear lines of responsibility and requires a commitment to implementing and maintaining high standards of healthcare.