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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Otherwise it's a great idea.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. He says that intentional Web 2.0 Is It Sticky? I have a couple of points and resources to add.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. ——————– Engineering 245. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. How many people?

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Other companies are moving in this direction, and recommendation engines are becoming more and more common. Today, when you perform a search on Google, the results you see are based on what sites you have visited, what products you have purchased, what IP address you are browsing from, and what your social network looks like.