crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Good insight on startups and product development in this AMA with Jason Fried – crowdspring.co/TmVP1. “A Minimum Viable Product doesn’t count in SaaS – it has to be a Minimum Sellable Product.” How Fast-Growing Startups Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks – crowdspring.co/VrHqmQ.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Highly trained salespeople.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. 50 More Humorous Print Advertisements to Make You Smile – [link]. Early Startup Time Wasters – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. A Complete Guide to Effective Writing – [link]. Five Ways to Write Magnificent Copy – [link]. Put Crowdsourcing to Work for You – [link]. How We Collaborate is More Important Than Who Collaborates – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Freemium models have their own scorekeeping.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable. Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and.

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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. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2012

Unlike most of her competitors, Lynda does almost everything in-house – from the growing of the fruits in thousands of acres of orchard, R&D process involved in creating new products, extraction of the juice through a patented manufacturing process, to the advertising and packaging of the product.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

They are completely free platforms upon which companies can advertise, promote, and even sell their products and services —— absolutely free. While all of these platforms offer paid advertising and awareness campaigns, thrifty and smart business owners know how to optimize their free accounts to leverage their marketing efforts.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation. They can help with development and licensing, too. See Also How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. Advertising and marketing.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

Your brand (and product) should be easily recognizable no matter the channel you’re promoting it on. Paid advertising options include: Sponsored content Native search ads Podcast ads Email newsletter ads. Done right, your PR campaign should incentivize media outlets to pick it up. The key to success is consistency.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Product launch) In todays world, there is no reason you have to do these two things at the same time. Do some Customer Development instead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. If they are willing to pay big bucks, for example, to attend a conference on a certain topic, that bodes well for your ability to sell them a product related to that topic.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. I asked her not to spray and pray, and focus on her core, differentiated products - stretch mark and c-section mark removal creams for new mothers. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. This is her core market.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. And you need to understand the potential impact of product-economic fit so that you can be better prepared for it.”. Growth hacking is done best when it begins at the start of product development. Because growth should be built into the product itself for maximum ROI.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! million in venture financing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Isn’t it equally possible that this company is spending more money on advertising or marketing than it’s competitors? The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) But is that true?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. So again, none of this is me trying to say what you should do for product development, in fact, or what you should write in code in fact. Edwin: I know. Jason: Okay.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. When I work with clients who have a product (website) they want to create I tell them to make something and see what the response is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

If so, how do we think about successful companies that dont charge money for their product? Are advertisers customers, and are they part of a market? But also, remember that eBay started out with pez dispensers but also remember that Google never advertised and Ive heard that Facebook got it right from the start.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We kept denying that we had done anything wrong, that the features still worked as advertised, and justifying our decisions instead of apologizing. Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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