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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

Early adopters, especially those who are willing to pay for novel services, are the lifeblood of lean startups. More broadly, Austin-based companies can theoretically serve an area of more than 5 million people if you throw Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio into the mix. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

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Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 20, 2010 Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup) The Wall Street Journal covers the Lean Startup movement in todays paper. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston.

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Twitter Link Roundup #189 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

The Right Way to Hire Your Customers | Bill Lee – Harvard Business Review – [link]. 5 Lessons Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Learned When His Business Boomed | Fast Company – [link]. Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. -> [link]. Yes — GigaOM – [link].

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The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019

Austin Startup

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. in line with the Texas Startup Manifesto the team that he manages is distributed across the state with members in Austin, Dallas and Houston. mostly all people who she hired!

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. This article is part of a trend that has taken me a bit by surprise: the adoption of lean startup techniques outside the traditional domain of high-tech startups.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. Jonathan: I think we talked about this on a previous podcast with regards to when is it time to hire somebody else on your team. We’ve got another Texas city, Houston, number seven.

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