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

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Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox. All rights reserved.

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

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5 Lessons Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Learned When His Business Boomed | Fast Company – [link]. . “A solid business model and a great story will at best have 10% chance of succeeding” – [link]. 10 Research-Backed Steps To Building A Great Team – [link]. The Three Phases of Startup Sales – [link].

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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Jessica Houston Enterprises is a women’s empowerment business that provides personal and professional development training. Thanks to Dr. Jessica Houston, Jessica Houston Enterprises ! A former television news reporter who moved into Public Relations, I always knew that I wanted to work for myself.