Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. What’s the customer acquisition cost?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I come from a high-tech software background, and only a few years ago, it would cost at least a million dollars ($1M) for a team of professionals to produce any commercial software product. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But my favorite was when the public relations manager said, “we’re here to write press releases and answer the phone in case the press calls.” We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), It will cost you your job.” The same was true for PR.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Google In Early Testing of Cost-Per-Lead “Communications Extensions” in AdWords – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. People First – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Before You Add That Feature, Do You Know The Real Cost? There’s a tremendous wealth of insight in his answers and the way he engaged the Reddit audience. I encourage you to spend some time reading the AMA – you’ll learn a great deal. – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

The other thing to know right away as a founder is that there’s a subtle (but large) difference between people in advertising or visual branding and folks who understand the words that make a brand tick. And in that case, there’s a low barrier to entry from a cost perspective and an experience perspective. It’s doable though.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Advertising consulting. To help businesses with their online and offline advertising campaigns. Public relations consulting. You’ve got to start at the beginning – with your start-up costs. These costs may include: your brand design (logo, business cards, and website). Marketing consulting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan. Ortho kills.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

We write often of low-cost, high impact marketing tactics for small businesses and share tips for leveraging these. Search engine marketing is a tactic that is perfect for a lean, iterative approach to marketing. Facebook advertising’s greatest benefit is the network effect. Determine ad type.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. 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

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The challenge often isn’t in finding ways to quickly increase customers and revenue or to decrease costs. Businesses have taken notice: Limited editions of cars, books, boats, stamps, and commemorative coins continually appear on the market, and the limited edition often costs as much as four times more than the everyday product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The challenge often isn’t in finding ways to quickly increase customers and revenue or to decrease costs. Businesses have taken notice: Limited editions of cars, books, boats, stamps, and commemorative coins continually appear on the market, and the limited edition often costs as much as four times more than the everyday product.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

Don’t confuse that with a lack of positivity or a “win at all costs” mentality rather it’s about intention to deliver results rather than excuses. Thanks to Ken Schaefer, Schaefer Advertising ! #2 7 – Better be a lean moorhen on a pond than a fat sparrow in a cage. Advertising & Public Relations. #16

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

While most businesses use a marketing model that tends to lean heavy on the desire to go from know us to buy from us, any business that fills each of these seven touchpoints will be well on their way to finding and keeping customers that become part of the lead generation and conversion team. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : All rights reserved.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac. All rights reserved.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. The weird world of vintage advertising | Desizn World – [link]. Creative Advertising Posters 2013 | Graphic Design Magazine – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Creating Customer Bliss Do You Run a 24 Hour Business? The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? Note: There have been some updates since I published th. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. : 5 Steps to Successful Fac.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! Half of What Online Advertisers Know About You Is Wrong – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Want to become a better public speaker and promote your business? The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link]. Here are 10 tips – [link].

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars. Now I had happy and surprised customers walking around with paid advertising for my company. Waiting for images to move around the screen were not only driving them crazy, but costing them money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products [link] crowdspring.co/1FcPnhs How Much Does A WordPress Website Cost? . ‘We Had a Crush on the MakerBot': How 3-D Printing Won These Fashion Designers Over [link] crowdspring.co/1E9jIJQ 10 Truths We Forget Too Easily [link] crowdspring.co/1JkEVrr The Highest-Paid Female C.E.O.s

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Tips for low cost startup marketing … Low Hanging Fruit | Wade Foster – [link]. Tips for low cost startup marketing … Low Hanging Fruit | Wade Foster – [link]. Can Money Buy Happiness? ” – [link].

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2016

And you, the business owner, obviously need to know your industry well in order to survive—whether you write down what you know in a formal plan, or just keep it in mind with strategy and tactics in a lean plan. It could include public relations and advertising, affiliate sites, price promotion, and events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

5 Startup Costs You Might Not Have Thought About – [link]. The 7 Myths of Lean and How Analytics Can Help – [link]. Startups, Throw Out Your Financial Models: The Argument For Lean Modeling | Forbes – [link]. The Courage to Advertise Without Female Stereotypes – [link]. 6 Secret (Until Now!)

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Digital advertising is broken – [link]. Interesting perspective on truthiness in advertising – [link]. Will CPE (Cost Per Engagement) advertising ever take off? Google spending big money on traditional advertising – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. ” My guess would have more to do with the costs of Windows Server licensing and the Visual Studio IDE than with the capabilities of.NET or C# (of which the above post demonstrates an extremely limited understanding). originalgeek.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

Lean Business Tips: Marketing Channels on the Cheap | crowdSPRING Blog – [link] crowdspring.co/1L8yVm3 This Low-Cost Irrigation App Could Help California Farmers Save A Truly Incredible Amount Of Water [link] crowdspring.co/1HLn9wV Tools You Didn’t Realize Could Send You More Blog Traffic [link] crowdspring.co/1Tjee9M

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. The average college consultant costs anywhere from $5,000 to $40,000 a pop. We are able to do that because: 1. We can in a way that endures as long as it needs to.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

They also help us optimize our own processes, because we can measure the costs and returns at each step of the journey. Usually, the process boils down to something like the “Build → Measure → Learn” framework popularized by The Lean Startup …. and furthermore, “is that value greater than the cost of the time and resources?”.

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