crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Product searches on Amazon have grown 73 percent over the last year while searches on Google Shopping have been flat” – [link]. Anyone with kids will appreciate it - [link].

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. Better search. It’s not uncharted territory?—?if Pick and Shovel’ plays.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

The key things I want students to take from the class are: Understand that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a profitable business model. A partner allows me the flexibility to miss a session or two (my job as a California Coastal Commissioner meets three days every month up and down the coast of California.)

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Increased privacy is often promoted as a benefit, but you may be disappointed—feel free to test that idea by searching for corporate directors on Nevada’s website.

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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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. This means you still need to have a resilient personality, and be agile.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. So he had adopted Steve’s Lean LaunchPad class and was using The Startup Owner’s Manual as his core text. . ———– The 99%.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Twitter - You can run searches for various types of techie terms being used in a given geography. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. And then use them to get to even more.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. We don’t need to know all this stuff.” Yes you do. From top to bottom.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Do I update my resume and start the job search again, or do I do something else? But I also leaned that is actually ok. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California. Many years ago the company that I worked for went out of business. Sadly, this was not the first time it happened to me.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Twitter - You can run searches for various types of techie terms being used in a given geography. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. And then use them to get to even more.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve been blogging, commenting, emailing, and all over social media searching for folks to buy in to my pitch, smart personalized web software (to aid pasive search -Dave winer calls it two way, and relevant ads). On a more serious note, any tips on attracting founders?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And we filled it with racks of receivers and displays , wire and strip recorders and communications intercept equipment that could search the electromagnetic spectrum from 50 megahertz to 3 gigahertz, and this is 1943. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. Thanks for connecting the historical dots!

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Yet he still personally travels in his customers’ neighborhoods in search of deeper customer insights.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. We found people to talk to through Google searches. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. And I think leaning into that, that I want to help this customer, I created this emerging experience, it's been targeted to you. So with technology we can do that, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. Eric Ries : Amen to that.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Within the week they were #6 in Google search results for “Stanford Admission Books.”. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. The team talked to an agricultural sensor expert at U.C.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. from University of California, Davis in Biomedical Engineering. We found people to talk to through Google searches. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At any given moment, they are just as likely to be reading Man’s Search for Meaning or watching Helvetica on Netflix as they are to be watching The Profit on CNBC or discreetly thumbing through their well-worn copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People. SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A PRODUCT MANAGER?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

– Cornell University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center at Carnegie Mellon University; and the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. The search for commercial supercomputer applications was good news for Ardent, as this was our business as well.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

I am currently down in Brazil and no matter how much I search, I can’t seem to find your book down here. e práticas de empreendedorismo em Startups no Brasil, especialmente relacionados aos temas Customer Development e Lean [.] Reply Eduardo , on November 29, 2009 at 2:50 pm Said: Steve, thanks for all the great insight.

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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 CEO refines his or her fund-raising pitch and hits the street and the phone searching for additional capital.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Negotiate your overhead for lower rates to help you get through the lean years when you are still building your company.” Then go out and search!” As CEO of a California biotech company, it is critical that I have speedy responses to my submissions and queries.” ” – Nicole Munoz, Start Ranking Now.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Many people seem to misunderstand customer development as a total random search through product/idea space guided by feedback from customer development process, whereas I see it more as a search through customer/market space. To me in a startup it’s the founders that decide where on the graph they will be searching.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Years later, I searched Google for anything written on moth/bat radar and countermeasures , and while now there are quite a few papers, John had never published anything on the subject. If he did he would have been 20 years ahead of everyone else.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2009

So, of course, as soon as he was gone, I went searching for a spare wool blanket…and found one in a supply cabinet. The other cadets all freak out about my suggestion, but I dove right in and cut it into squares.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

He was constantly looking at the multiple lines on the ALR-20 display and could see the Soviet radar order of battle: ground to air communications, what radars were around (search, acquisition, tracking, etc.),

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Want 300 days of sun a year?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

From California Historical Landmarks for Santa Clara note that Federal Telegraph predates HP by more than a quarter of a century and all of the early WWII era technology entrepreneurs had a common interest in radio. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Mapl.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

According to Hanapin Marketing’s 2015/2016 State of Paid Search Report , most people feel pretty good about their PPC campaigns… Image Source. They know who you are, what you like, what you searched for last night, what you’re looking for, how motivated you are to find it, etc. billion desktop search queries…?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

What if, as you’re getting ready to harvest your first batch, you then find out that all the demand for passion fruit is centered in Southern California, and not in Miami like you thought? You would then have been able to choose to grow another product that was in demand, or start your farm in Southern California.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Search engine marketing is a tactic that is perfect for a lean, iterative approach to marketing. Paid search allows small business owners to easily set simple, reasoned goals and then, based on the data collected, make adjustments and decisions rationally. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Determine ad type.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Transcript Automated transcription services provided by: Dan Bowen: My name is Dan Bowen, and I’m up in the wine country in Healdsburg, California north of San Francisco, and the company name is SyncBloc, S-Y-N-C-B-L-O-C. I think that we get lost in search and social. Jason: SyncBloc. Well I know what Sync is, but Bloc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

through the Lean Launchpad class. He wanted to fly out to Stanford and sit in the Lean LaunchPad class about to start in the engineering school. He showed up with no press in-tow, no entourage, just a genuine search for understanding of whether this program was a waste of taxpayer money or good for the country. Lessons Learned.

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