Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

And I’m in good company – also in the series is Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations. 2:44: What is a Pivot?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

If you still don’t get Snapchat please read the primer or follow me on Snapchat for a week or two because how I create “stories” on Snapchat is more of a use case for modern media than perhaps some teens use the product so it may resonate more with you what the future could bring. Engagement. Users are highly engaged.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Pennies from Heaven: Chicago Startups’ Experiences with Angel Investors – [link]. Flyover Geeks: 2010′s Top 30 in Chicago tech – [link]. Can minimal design work for product packaging? – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Why Chicago is the Best Place to Start a Digital Startup - [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. 14 Great Product Packaging Designs - [link]. 14 Great Product Packaging Designs - [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Her first startup, Pencil You In, grew from a personal need to schedule hair appointments.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? How CEOs Stay So Productive | Fast Company – [link]. Good (short) video interview with Kevin Willer about the value 1871 Chicago offers entrepreneurs – [link]. Quora – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. Why You Should Join Us in 2015 Since 2011, The Lean Startup has helped countless ventures transform ideas into thriving businesses. We woke up to a city-wide power outage, and Day Two of the conference had stopped before it started.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD. Good long read on the history of Motorola | Chicago magazine – crowdspring.co/1nQMcBM. Hiring startup engineers?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And so on down then line. If a company that would traditionally raise $500k at a $3.5

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

These 44 Apps Will Make Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners More Productive – crowdspring.co/YGV8Dp. These 44 Apps Will Make Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners More Productive – crowdspring.co/YGV8Dp. 5 basic legal considerations for startups | Chicago Tribune – crowdspring.co/1na3gI5.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries. We also had the benefit of many lean practices that break out of the "time, quality, money - pick two" paradox. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 31, 2013

Customer service is marketing and by providing the highest quality support to your customers, by solving their problems, by paying attention to them, by just being nice to them you may not get them to “like” you, but chances are good that you will get them to buy more of whatever products or services you are offering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

The image above is from an outstanding collection of black and white photographs taken by Vivian Maier, a street photographer whose work was discovered at an auction in Chicago. crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. Reeses Pieces, E.T.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link].

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Last week, Ross was contacted by an old friend, Ron May, who publishes an industry newsletter in Chicago and writes extensively about technology, startups, and small business in our region. Hey Ron, Taking a cue from the lean startup movement, Mike and I have lost a combined 30 pounds this summer. Photo: MissTessmacher.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 8, 2012

A great example of this for me is a company based here in Chicago, Homemade Pizza Company. They have a great product and a great marketing team. Related posts: Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Always productive and efficient, John gets things done in a way that doesn’t call attention to himself, but rather to the work product itself. I might also mention that she is a budding stand-up comic working the mic at clubs in Chicago and San Francisco. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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Mucker Lab

JUNE 15, 2020

Making matters worse, 42% of those positions may never return , according to the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago. Not everyone will have the resources to get started, especially now, whether it’s leaning on a stockpile of personal savings or a network of generous friends and family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

I am holding in my hand one of the very first print editions of The Lean Startup. Over the weekend, The Lean Startup hit #1 on Barnes & Noble overall (it's still there as I'm writing this, wow). And, in case you hadn't guessed, you'll be looking at a minimum viable product - with details subject to change.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. . Especially, if that energy is focused around a product that an entrepreneur is passionate about. Is it fair to say some people are just not born to be leaders?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. The Navy informs Terman that, “money was not a problem but time was.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2010

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Intuitive design is the act of producing products that are easy to use by the consumer. They have probably used other, similar websites or products before. A good way to go about redesigns is to use the Lean Design methodology. What is intuitive design? You walk up to it and want to get in. Be careful about redesigns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ▼ April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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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. There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles. ” .

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A lifelong entrepreneur, Jason has been named to Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list and was named EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Midwest. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) and The Economic Club of Chicago. I take a particular interest in the product side of the business. Where are we going?

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Chicago Campaign Software Review Software Engineering 50

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Your moisture-sapped skin, that is, not Chicago’s snow deficiency. Their body care products are all natural and all organic. For Chicago citizens, they have a shop located just off the Grand Red Line station. For the rest of you fine folk, you can order their products online. And, apparently, this year so snowless.

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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. There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Today he teaches his students at Notre Dame how to use Lean Startup principles. ” .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

We provide creatively compliant solutions to people who provide products and services in these sectors, so we knew we would need a name that speaks to our cannabis and psychedelic fluency while at the same time normalizing what we do with a conventional-sounding name. Photo Credit: Oliver Goodwin. Thanks to Seren Nurgun, Sweet Sea Digital !

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Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. And then, when Scobleizer brought up the tricky sponsorship question, I simply passed the baton to Chris Courtney who clonked them over the head with some lean methodology, just as he did earlier that day.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It wasn’t always perfect, but it was way more right than wrong, It informed our product development to a great degree and kept us working on more or less the right stuff. Pragmatic and Lean. He would set up some people to develop a product or go after a customer or whatever, and have competing teams trying to do the same thing.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

We chose Stellar Villa since it's a broad name that would allow us to sell art but also other home related products should we ever decide to. We wanted a name that conveyed the playful nature of our products and also reminded people that our first clothing items were centered around the Christmas holiday. Photo Credit: Hope Gibbs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The above ad from Apple in the 1984 Super Bowl helped make Super Bowl advertising must-see TV and redefined how companies leverage the Super Bowl to promote their products. Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. Chicago’s Exploding Tech Startup Scene: Second to None – [link].

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