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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Tech IPO prices exploded and subsequent trading prices rose to dizzying heights as the stock prices became disconnected from the traditional metrics of revenue and profits. Startups with huge burn rates – building leases, staff, PR and advertising – ran out of money. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. 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. Keep core development in-house. Do it yourself.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

For instance, if a consultant proposes to help you with public relations, pay them a commission equivalent to the greater of a flat fee per story placed or a percentage of revenue generated from the PR coverage. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Every product marketer thought they should help define the product feature set, etc. In reality the sales team was working for the rest of the company to make all of our stock valuable. No one was confused after that.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

PR and publicity drive attention…to drive sales. The key differentiator being the product-level focus vs. the channel-level focus of traditional marketing effort. And you need to understand the potential impact of product-economic fit so that you can be better prepared for it.”. Step 1: Product Development.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B) So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. A) Just launch… We launched RateBrain with no marketing, fanfare, VC money, and we’re starting to see traffic and real traction.