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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? As you start to collect data, you’ll be able to identify the core reasons for churn and develop an action plan for churn reduction across each of these buckets. One thing worth considering is that your gross margins will tell you whether certain distribution channels are viable?—?for

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

In fact, 15% of them are outsourcing design and development of their SM campaigns, 11% using outside capacity to create content and 10% are outsourcing their social media analytics. Studies have shown over 60% of small business marketers devote as much as 10 hours per week to SM campaigns and tactics.