crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2011

There are numerous methods to use for your employee review and each has it’s advantages, but on a practical level, most small companies approach this process as a simple conversation. I had a great conversation about this recently with the president of a bank here in Chicago, and he shared an insight that resonated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2011

We'll have slides and video from our Lean Startup track posted soon. Don't forget to vote to help choose a Lean Startup SXSW Challenge winner. I am declaring next week to be officially Lean Startup Week in New York City. These events all have limited availability: NYC Lean Startup Circle , Thurs. Here's why: NYU, Tues.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

We are huge believers in a lean approach to marketing and business and one of the precepts is small batch testing: stick with what works and get rid of what doesn’t. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2011 Version. Lean business practices Small business Start ups budget end of year.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

Thus it was that Eric Ries both extended Blank’s work and made it more accessible with the publication of The Lean Startup in 2011. The founder is a disciplined practitioner of lean startup principles who had achieved good growth through lots of experimentation and optimisation, but they had got stuck.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. What I am most proud of is what I hope will be a significant contribution to our collective conversation about entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. Why You Should Join Us in 2015 Since 2011, The Lean Startup has helped countless ventures transform ideas into thriving businesses. No lights, no wifi, and no A/V.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Team: IntelliSense.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. If it's the number of people buying, the metric is conversion rate. But it is not routine.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Conversions will still suck – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – [link]. Product design at GitHub [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. Survey design.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

helping Twitter-enable Charlie Sheen for a direct-to-fan conversation – [link]. Exciting Web Design Trends to look out for: 2011 Edition – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. Half Of U.S. 12-Year-Olds Are Facebooking – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. One-way, outbound, non-conversational messages still work – [link]. The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011 – [link]. Her fascinating story is in the Other section below. Reeses Pieces, E.T.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Increase Conversion by Decreasing Engagement, Even with Video – [link]. Increase Conversion by Decreasing Engagement, Even with Video – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 14, 2011

I did my best to focus the conversation on key concepts like minimum viable product and rapid experimentation. For example, you probably didn't notice that on April 27, 2011, the President issued Executive Order 13571, with the sonorous title "Streamlining Service Delivery and Improving Customer Service." But some have.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

As a further mimic of its host city, New York tech stands tall and stubborn, with a never-say-die presence through flush times and lean. But our conversations at NextView have always ended in excited chatter about the New York opportunity. in round size). 24% of all VC deals in NYC in ’15 were seed.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. CRM Magazine: 2011 CRM Market Leaders. Unleash It!

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 12, 2012

” Food on the Table — a now-famous lean juggernaut in Austin run by IMVU alum Manuel Rosso — talked to 120. Capital Factory 2011 alum GroupCharger talked to 50 before building and another 50 after that. But then as the conversations wore on, I felt a change. But there’s no one “number.”

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The Customer is a Genius Then instead of talking about our products he segued the conversation into their products. And soon the conversation were about architectural tradeoffs and then how customers didn’t appreciate the elegant designs and how the world was going to hell in a handbasket because of these commodity microprocessors.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Codecademy started out in 2011 as one of the first free products that taught people to code. This test leaned on a psychological principle called the Rule of 100 , which suggests that users perceive dollar amounts over 100 as being greater in value than percentages, despite both equating to the same amount. Conclusion.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. Are you in the “lean&# phase? I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. So here’s my framework.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

KissMetrics is all about funnel conversion, which any web analytics tool already offers and having to add yet another script on your page isn’t justified by having pretty conversion graphs. when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3)

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. In the course of a few conversations, the two men agreed upon a valuation and drafted an arrangement in which Graham would convert fees into an undisclosed amount of equity in Pro Player Connect. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Copyright © 2011 Mansueto Ventures LLC.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

KissMetrics is all about funnel conversion, which any web analytics tool already offers and having to add yet another script on your page isn’t justified by having pretty conversion graphs. when you are not outside the building interviewing them) Other articles you might like Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3)

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. And then, in 2011, they announced this plan to split as mail and streaming services. Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

As I ran this morning I was imagining a conversation with a good friend of mine about us investing in his next startup. Most founders are strong in one or two areas and lean on us in others so they can get moving quickly. I think he’s also pretty good at product.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 4, 2018

There’s a balance of course, and the game has become harder since Ries published The Lean Startup in 2011. Remember that, as important as it might seem at the time, no one conversation is going to make or break your company. So much better to release early. Then, maybe the tougher part is to try and change how you feel.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Conversion Research. It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Website Analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada. We talked about how her background has made her well-suited for this kind of civic engagement, her relationship to the tech world, how she scaled the organization so quickly and much more.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

At the same time, as these conversations were going on with the city, as I understand it, Stanford got cold feet and decided they really didn’t want to extend out 3500 miles. Lesson 3: Have the hard conversations up front. Were I to do a company again, I would insist on having those conversations first.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

The watershed moment in entrepreneurship becoming more science than art as probably Eric Ries’s publication of The Lean Startup in 2011 (although some would argue for Steve Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany in 2005). The GP-LP structure used by most funds is a brake on innovation here too. It’s hard and requires a different mindset.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Shift the conversation to places where the competition can’t—or won’t—go. Create “thin ice” arguments.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2016

I have been part of some the best conversion optimization teams in the world, and they seem to have an intuitive sense on how to run the best experiments. Most of the Cialdini principles are pretty straightforward to implement, and in many occasions they will deliver conversion improvement. Image Source. An expert’s opinion.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2017

“A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision,” says Eric Ries , author of The Lean Startup. By enabling more conversations, Gaglers hoped to transform websites into vibrant communities, prompting people to spend more time on a website. How did it help? Why did it fail?

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