crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Metrics for Series A – [link]. 13 Entrepreneur Blogs that Educate, Enlighten and Inspire | Mavenlink Blog – [link]. Good (short) video interview with Kevin Willer about the value 1871 Chicago offers entrepreneurs – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

The Skinny on Using Crowdsourcing for Your Business | The Frugal Entrepreneur – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. Women Entrepreneurs Out Earn Men By 14% | Forbes – [link]. Why entrepreneurs struggle with MBA hires – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

The image above is a mosaic of the most interesting photos from Flickr, based on Flickr’s mysterious “interesting” metric. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Measuring What Matters: How To Pick A Good Metric – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Leadership Rule No.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Metrics on keywords, follower profiles and competitors all help define your target listener. As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. Entrepreneur Social Media How-To''s' Startup Example: Zappos. Strategy Adopted: Leveraging Social Media Analytics. Prioritize social networks.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. They need to learn to find answers to questions like: who are my customers, what product features match customer needs, how do I create demand and what metrics matter? On Fire With A Vision.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. Seed has become an option factory for many.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Most startups fail. sustainable business.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Conversion Research. Most startups fail.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

But when it comes to measurement, many managers struggle with developing and tracking the metrics specific to their strategy. An important step is to figure out which metrics are the ones that are important to your business. Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013!

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 19, 2013

The only way to succeed in venture capital is backing wonderful entrepreneurs and working hard on their behalf. However, measuring the outcome of a fund has a long time horizon so there are several other metrics we keep on our dashboard. As 2013 winds down, I’m finding it exhilarating to build our new fund.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Naivete and a shared vision are among the key markers for success, two social entrepreneurs said on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Liz Powers is a social entrepreneur with a passion for helping homeless people. Liz Powers. And download any of the past shows here.).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Lean Methodology Sources.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Further more, over 9,000 of the 44,000+ projects on Kickstarter raised $0 as of January 2, 2013. Thanks to Nathan Miloszewski , VoIP Supply LLC.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Wowzers rock on, but after stuffing around with payment processors for months I finally put up my buy now button in January 2013 ($9 / month) and guess how many people signed up?…. Traffic volume is a vanity metric. Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

I think early on, we might’ve swung a little too far and we’re making sure that, “Hey, where can we push and where can we make sure that the entrepreneurs and the mini CEOs in our company can flourish more responsibly? So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. We still want to have fun.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

This is great provided you already have in place a strategic thinking business plan where you have clearly identified your ideal customers; know your market and have established key metrics. Further more, over 9,000 of the 44,000+ projects on Kickstarter raised $0 as of January 2, 2013. Thanks to Nathan Miloszewski , VoIP Supply LLC.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

. “Growth hackers have a passion for tracking and moving a metric. Without metrics or data, a growth hacker can feel out of place and uncomfortably exposed. This strong bias towards data drives a growth hacker away from vanity metrics towards metrics that will make or break the business.” ” Creativity.

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