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How to Optimize SaaS Development Costs

Up and Running

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. They were able to take their market valuation to $1.0 billion just with the iOS MVP. . Do your design first.

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Twitter Link Roundup #155 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link].

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When Customers Make You Smarter

Steve Blank

—— We’re into week 9 of teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF teaching with a team of veteran venture capitalists. This short video is a classic in Customer Discovery. If you can’t see the video click here.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Churn rate was high for a service that many organizations saw as a “nice to have.” Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering? Image source ).

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Skype and Zoom are useful for video/audio conferences. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. you can see the video here.

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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. But notice what’s not listed: messages sent per person, churn rates of active users, or activation rate of new user. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Search for: Videos. 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? Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos? As for videos, don’t know – I’ve never created one.