crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Stanford engineer invents safe way to wirelessly power deep-tissue micro-implants in body shar.es/VyHov. Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

My favorite line about using blogging for PR I heard from Brian Solis who said, “PR doesn’t stand for press release, it stands for public relations.&# When you think about your blog, think about which members of the public you most need relations with. We then set out to build these features as quickly as we could.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

Given that the product may still be in development, the marketer also needs to be agile and ready to respond to unexpected obstacles with an early startup marketing strategy. Search engines like Google aim to deliver quality content that matches searcher intent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." 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. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While we ramped up our content this year and increased the number of posts on our blog, we’ve realized that it’s also important to make a pivot now, and ensure that our content is optimized and will begin to rank on search engines. The first event has already started – Agile and Management 3.0

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Thus began the 5-year dot-com bubble.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

2 – Advertising Agency & Boutique PR and Advertising Agencies. Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Natalie Harper.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Startups are intended to be agile businesses that consistently face engineering and marketing challenges with creative thinking and a willingness to evolve. With an interest in the social media / PR space, Untitled Startup Inc. But what if the company you are building begins to change? When Untitled Startup Inc.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

This is generally split into two areas, though they’re often used together to some varying proportion: Search Engine Marketing. Search engine marketing is intent-based keyword bidding on search networks such as Google Adwords and Microsoft Bing. You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. After friends/family, there are professionals that can make a huge difference. Start a blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. Thanks to Heather Krug, Heather Krug PR & Marketing ! #11- Mike is a software engineer and very familiar with a popular web development framework named Django. We played around with it for a bit and came up with Toys, Tots, Pets and More.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2019

Turning to the literature on change management helps up to a point: unless you are Jack Welch or a CEO, for the rest of us change initiatives are often still all about long slide shows, “buy-in”, job cuts, and facile rhetoric about being agile and nimble.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

I received an email from the PR contact for the company that mentioned the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the process of idea collection on the web they were undertaking. Agile: Manages the product engineering methodology according to Agile or hybrid principles. First let me give you some background on how this came about.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Google accused of abusing its search engine dominance bit.ly/1yLzKhK. A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. A Technical Founder’s Notes on Sales Team Management – buff.ly/1aV8cL4. 30 Startup Lessons – buff.ly/1DIXcZy. Fooled by Experience bit.ly/1QaKs6B.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. At no time did IMVU ever employ more than three full-time 3D artists. Great post!

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

Here are a few I have seen work: PR Opportunity – for the LargeCo. A strong bluff if you have no backup, but a reasonable move if you have a team and want to move onto the next company/prospect/project as a small agile team. Typically a startup wants a POC with a LargeCo. and they move at a glacial pace.

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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. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. What plan says that?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Their stories would not have been possible without access to sympathetic adults with the necessary equipment and knowledge to get started.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

To prepare the discussion, I worked with my colleague Pia d'Iribarne on a short memo summarizing a few elements that could be addresses in the labor law to reduce complexity and increase the agility of start-ups. While France is very strong on the engineering side, attracting foreign sales, marketing and product talents is often necessary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality. Thanks to Bryanne Lawless, BLND PR ! #17 So, Im convinced that perfection is a pernicious barrier to success. Thanks to Peter James Lovisek, Fossil Realm Inc. ! Image Credit: Lori Cheek.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

6 Thoughts on Creating and Leading Engineering Teams – buff.ly/1zNp7eB. The Basics of Email Marketing | Search Engine Journal crowdspring.co/1PYFIjm. A Designer’s Introduction to “Agile” Methodology – Tuts+ Web Design Article bit.ly/1JT4QEb. How One Entrepreneur Raised A Half Billion Dollars crowdspring.co/1HRNSqX.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. When wed go into a product planning meeting, often an engineer or product person would have already run a small scale A/B experiment , and so already have some data to go on. . Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm is Head of Engineering at social games company Wooga. I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. Engineers are not forced to share or reuse code, so there is no central framework that everyone must use. Being agile.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. You can learn more about the agile development methodology on Version One’s site. Do your own PR. Whether or not you’ve got the budget, doing your own PR to start with is a good idea. Use a development methodology. Keep core development in-house.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Customer Development Engineering : techniques for accelerating your product development. Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Startup Priorities: Is Design More Important Than Engineering? Trust in Friends Declines, Trust in Experts Rises – Social Media and PR Still Win - [link]. Excellent post about agile software development & some pitfalls of agility - [link]. Management Secrets of the Grateful Dead – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Google was not the first search engine, but it's the one that succeeded. Is it really worthwhile spending time and money trying to impress each other with our supposed successes, especially in a business where real feedback can take five or ten years?

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