crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’re dedicated to making The Lean Startup Conference unlike other entrepreneurship conferences. As Lean Startup takes root around the world, we’d like to learn from and help people working in geographically diverse areas connect with each other.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past few years, several of his video campaigns have amassed more than five billion views, and 35 of them have landed on the first page of YouTube. You’ll hear from Staples on the five positive emotions that are the most effective in content to get people to lean forward and share: happiness, awe, curiosity, empathy, and surprise.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The worst news : The worse news was what wasn’t said, less than 10% of our existing customers bought because of some proactive marketing campaign. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. We were losing money on every board we sold. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Blog at WordPress.com.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. What is the best time to send email campaigns? What is the best time to send email campaigns? Don’t let Silicon Valley fool you—millenials are the least entrepreneurial generation | Quartz – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

If you think Silicon Valley can’t innovate, you’re not looking hard enough — [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link]. Seven inspiring examples of charity / non-profit marketing campaigns | Econsultancy – [link]. 10 Best Websites for Recruiting Remote Talent | [link] – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments. Because that’s something that we all in Silicon Valley [need to do].

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -. So What is Customer Development? They exist to learn how to build a. sustainable business.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” Source: YouTube ]. -

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2015

You''ve helped make the first week of my Kickstarter campaign a success—we''ve blown through our funding goal and are scrambling to add new backer rewards to replace the ones you''ve all sold out. Fittingly, he started it off with a Kickstarter campaign. Fittingly, he started it off with a Kickstarter campaign.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2009

If it was a very big mistake, I blamed the VP of Sales. “This marketing campaign didn’t work? Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Zen moment #1- Admitting a mistake and asking for help Up until this point in my career I had one response anytime I screwed something up: blame someone else.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet, this was a successful growth marketing campaign. Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley. I know that sometimes campaigns like this can seem overwhelming. The good news I hope well get to announce in a few days is the direct result of the twitter campaign you helped launch last year. There are four ways to get involved below.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Campaign Monitor. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? web analytics measure marketing campaigns. SEO and campaign management tool. Campaigner - email marketing suite.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -. So What is Customer Development? They exist to learn how to build a. sustainable business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! If you study the candidates' campaign websites, whitepapers, and promises, as I have, you'll realize there is only one choice. I can't tell you how moving it is to get to shake so many hands of entrepreneurs from around the world. The list goes on.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

government is discovering that Lean innovation can help them serve the country better and faster. the FEC deals with campaign finance information, regulating and disclosing all that information. Entrepreneurship stretches from Main Street to Silicon Valley, from startups to big companies. Want to be a guest on the show?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company).

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Obama’s own campaign used Moneyball and Lean Startup strategies to win the ultra high stakes Presidential Election. He was analyzing the data and saying the race wasn’t nearly as close as many pundits and news sources were saying the days leading up to the election. VCs becoming moneyballers.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

To Tim Berry’s point, who was on this podcast a little while ago in a lean planning episode, a lot of this stuff comes from iterative thinking. ” Not everybody is Silicon Valley in California making millions of dollars. Yeah, you set forth a guess, and frankly, it’s a guess, it’s your best guess.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Growth hacking came from Silicon Valley, where people do not trust marketers. This entire model is very close to the Lean Startup model. You have three parameters: medium, source, campaign name. Everyone is very excited about growth hacking, but they’re focused on “silver bullet” tactics. What Instead? Hypothesis.

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