Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company. Hiring PR Agencies. They learned a ton.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. What plan says that?

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 228

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. Brilliant analysis.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their opinions of how we should describe our product and company. How do I sort out what to do?”. Here’s how. they’ll win.).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 269

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. More great examples in the Logo Design section below. 16J7Ge5. .

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

Thanks to Hope Gibbs, Inkandescent Public Relations ! #3- I engineered a way to use blockchain to bypass the coffee middlemen, pay growers directly, and even let customers send a monetary tip to a coffee farmer. Inkandescent Inc. 3- First we looked at our flagship offerings. Photo Credit: Tina Elven.

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Naming Entrepreneur LLC Colombia 162

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business North America Design 109

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Interesting, especially in light of debate about remote work … Engineering Serendipity | NYT – [link]. The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act – [link]. Just try not to laugh!

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link]. Here are 10 tips – [link]. How To Say No To People Who Want To Pick Your Brain – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Lean Doesn’t Always Create the Best Products [link] crowdspring.co/1FcPnhs How to Create Shareworthy Content | Search Engine Journal [link] crowdspring.co/1A7xhOR . ‘We Had a Crush on the MakerBot': How 3-D Printing Won These Fashion Designers Over [link] crowdspring.co/1E9jIJQ 10 Truths We Forget Too Easily [link] crowdspring.co/1JkEVrr

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Small Business Design Social Media Startup 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

If you believed the opinions in the marketing department, the customers were in science, engineering, color desktop publishing, and a variety of applications with no single industry or application dominating the list. Since this was the marketing department, I was going to be planning to spend some advertising and public relations dollars.

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Silicon Valley RSS Software Review Technical Review 210

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. I bet you over-engineered your startup – [link]. Marc Andreessen: Not every startup should be a Lean Startup or embrace the pivot | Gigaom – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. 4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. 8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know – [link]. Book Review: Rework (a fresh perspective on business by @jasonfried & @dhh of @37signals ) – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! How closely knit design and engineering teams put Pinterest on a rocket ship | Gigaom – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams – [link]. Is crowdsourcing a threat or opportunity for PR agencies? Money on the Mind: Small Biz Financial Stories of the Week – [link]. Can Money Buy Happiness?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Good overview of lean software development – [link]. – [link]. Thinking about getting an MBA?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Members from the strategy team might have some insights that can help the Public Relations Team, while the PR Team might have share ideas to pitch to Creative. Our lean, limited asset business provides us the opportunity to focus our efforts on sales, marketing and most importantly our customers.

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