crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

First, some background for those not familiar with lean startup principles. &# Lean Startup&# reflects a set of key principles used by some entrepreneurs to quickly and inexpensively develop new products and services. There’s strong support for the lean startup movement in the marketplace, including from investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. For very small sums a business can target a very specific local audience (in many cases right down to the zip-code). Yellow pages. Photo: Howard Lake.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Listen to Episode 9: Show notes: What is Lean Planning? Lean Business Planning by Tim Berry – (31:21). What’s the lean mean? – (:25).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education. . The Lean LaunchPad is now being taught in over 100 universities. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. That’s a lean business plan.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2021

It has been several years since the famed business title The Lean StartUp entered the entrepreneurial lexicon but its focus on continual improvement and experimentation for innovation is as relevant today as ever – perhaps more so following a vast period of tumult for businesses everywhere.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

This week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a wider audience. National Science Foundation adopted my Lean LaunchPad class. The Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps model may accelerate that process. Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Follow lean product development strategy (MVP strategy). Lean product development strategy or MVP (Minimum Viable Product) refers to creating a product with core features and offering it to a specific audience to get feedback.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Not only do corporate sponsors offer the capital to help you forge ahead, their backing brings new contacts and exposure to new audiences that can take your project to the next level. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Audience data.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Use this information to identify what interests your audience. This will help you build a picture of the target audience that will underpin your digital advertising strategy. By conducting competitive research , you can spot new opportunities to grab audience share. Which terms are people using to search for your products?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 27, 2023

Social media can not only provide you with a free marketing platform that connects you to a whole host of audiences and allows you to embed videos and other links, but your social media pages can function as a temporary substitute for your website while that’s still a distant prospect.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2019

by Scott Brown, Executive Director at UpRamp and author of “ (C)lean Messaging “ Every aspiring entrepreneur lives in pursuit of that lightbulb moment. What is (C)lean Messaging? The (C)lean Messaging framework is the first step. (C)lean The (C)lean Message. The big idea. An unparalleled innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

So much happened when the Lean Startup Community came together in Las Vegas last month for this year’s conference that I’m still processing it all. It was great to see so many of you there, and in particular to talk with so many different kinds of Lean Startup practitioners.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The best thing about surveys, especially online surveys, is that they help you get honest and real opinions from your target audience and customers. You need to keep your startup lean and agile and not become big with too much money and too many people. There are many ways to do this, but one of the most effective is using surveys.

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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2022

Who your audience is and what the purpose of the plan is will determine what sections you need to include and what you can skip. If committing to a full day of plan writing seems like too much, start with a Lean Plan instead. Business plans can come in many shapes and sizes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 12, 2023

VSLs allow affiliate marketers to lean into what they do best while giving audiences what they want the most: real, compelling stories that provide tangible solutions to the pain points in their lives. The post How To Use VSLs To Optimize Affiliate Marketing appeared first on Young Upstarts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. leanstartup #goap It was great to be in an audience of entrepreneurs who recognized the value of iteration and speed.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

.” Let’s meet in the virtual world – Even as IRL events return, expect these virtual destinations to continue as a way to make events more accessible to a global audience, according to Ketchum. From virtual concerts to conferences, art installations and shopping events… this is the beginning of the metaverse.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 17, 2012

For many small businesses and startups, blogging is an inexpensive and effective strategy to drive traffic to a site, develop a reputation, and build an engaged audience of potential customers, even fanatics, who will share your content, promote your message, and help you to herd more readers to your site. Make it easy to share. Photo: bby_.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Whether your product is an add-on or completely new, innovative solution, the core of your business idea should be about your audience—not you. However, rather than selling to a wide market, with a variety of expectations and preferences, you need to narrow your audience to a specific group with identifiable and targetable needs.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. What about “leaning in”? There is an argument that women need to “ lean in ” (thanks, Sheryl Sandburg).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. In building the program for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we’ve tried to strike a balance. To give you a sense of these practitioners, we asked some our new speakers to talk about how they use Lean Startup methods. Below are three of their takes on MVPs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

The Benefits of Generative AI for Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations and associations typically run on tight budgets and lean staff numbers. Marketing and communications team members can use AI to create tailored content for donors and other audiences, including social media posts or newsletter copy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference, who has created content for a number of startups. In our ongoing exploration of how people actually implement Lean Startup methods in their workplaces, we’re asking practitioners to share their techniques. Steph: Segmentation and timing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&#

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

You can find the latest news in the form of newsletters in Lean Luxe , 2 PM , Chips + Dips , Retail Brew , The Hustle , and Vogue Business. On the other hand, Econsultancy shares a new view of digital marketing trends, and Retail Dive talks about significant retailers such as Walmart, Amazon, and Lululemon.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Inbound marketing focuses on content that brings your target audience to you , rather than you chasing them. Use the median numbers as a guide for which program to lean towards. Analyze your audience to build strong connections. As Logo Design CEO Zaheer Dodhia says: “Know thyself first, audience second. Conclusion.

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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

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The takeaway here is simple: lean into your neighborhood. Even opening a location inside of another store can be a great opportunity to connect with a new audience. The trick here is to lean into the things that already work for your brand. Having a strong sense of your own audience and that of potential partners (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

Identify your audience and their needs. Rather, use the segments that make the most sense for your business niche and your audience needs. Pro Tip: Lean Startup Format. To explain or start your business quickly, you can consider a Lean startup business plan format. Don’t be intimidated by the competition.

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