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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Entrepreneurs beyond Silicon Valley, including those working abroad, often have to retool Lean Startup methods to apply them in places with very different business cultures. On September 24 in the U.S. Here’s what they had to say.

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

Forging deeper emotional connections with consumers, strong brands help communities to build a common identity. This can be initiatives that help consumers “be part of greatness”, support disadvantaged communities or participate in a movement. Finally, engagement ideas must be sharply defined in concrete terms.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Classes on growth hacking are being taught in Singapore. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.), Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Announcing the 2016 Lean Startup Week Program

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this year’s Lean Startup Week. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Foldees First up today was Chak Onn Lau with Foldees , a Malayasian crowdsourced greeting card company.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. Foldees First up today was Chak Onn Lau with Foldees , a Malayasian crowdsourced greeting card company.