crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Conversions will still suck – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important? Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Website Traffic or Conversions: Which Is More Important?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now this is worth stopping and thinking about for a second.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. CPC & conversion rates are abysmal. Why would people “save&# ads to review later? Specialist agencies to help w/ Facebook ads, but not atrocious conversion rates – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

helping Twitter-enable Charlie Sheen for a direct-to-fan conversation – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. Half Of U.S.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

You’ve got a great idea and domain expertise, but limited money and insufficient technology resources. Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? They’re well aware of the conventional VC bias against funding companies which externally develop their technology, but they do have relevant skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve made some cool additions to our pre-conference webcast lineup , including two conversations with founding figures for methods that underlie Lean Startup. I interrupted them and gave them “the spiel: about TDD. Crazy, huh?

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Extra Lucrative Conversion Advice. Conversion Optimization Services. Conversion Research. It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Website Analysis.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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. Conduct client development interviews. My agency wouldn’t have expanded beyond digital PR if it weren’t for early client conversations. Image source ).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". Their products are over-priced, buggy, lacking features, and every experience I've had with their tech support has been atrocious, but man their stuff looks and feels nice! Here's one tiny example: I give talks on peer code review at conferences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! But really in my zone of genius, which is tech, marketing and sales, inside my zone of genius, I know a lot of stuff. (02:31): John (03:05): So the technology, the world we live in, all the things that have changed. I like working with software developers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. Auto-responders: Why Trigger-based Email Will Increase Your Conversions – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. The Power of Simplicity | by Adam Bryant – [link].

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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 the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. No, I have many ideas.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

No, these days even technical execution is mostly trivial (with a few exceptions for apps built around unique algorithms). Your conversion rate should land between 5 and 40% depending on how long you’ve been collecting emails, the interest level of the prospects, and how compelling you make your offer. Elapsed time: 2 hours.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. A 3-D Printing Pen Wows Kickstarter | MIT Technology Review – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Book Review: Ctrl Alt Delete, by Mitch Joel – [link]. Inside the Development Process of Our My Analytics App | KISSmetrics – [link]. Create a Crowd Competition That Works | Harvard Business Review – [link]. The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link].

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. How do we do this?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

But instead of spending hours reading the book, read a detailed review of the book, or listen to an interview about the book. Hit Meetup.com for starters, and search Facebook for other tech entrepreneurs in your area. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. ability based on one of many technologies. Sjoerd Franken.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Based on conversations with these friends the reasons given for pursuing this path are the same ones I gave back when I started pursuing this road with a couple Yale MBAs. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. For example, you are leaving technology factor out of consideration.

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