crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. 10 Design Lessons From HTML Email Templates That Actually Sell – [link]. 10 Design Lessons From HTML Email Templates That Actually Sell – [link]. Innovative Product Design #3 – [link]. Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself – [link].

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The relative size of the development effort will make a big difference in your strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

SaaS products aren’t viral – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. The Product is the Byproduct – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Fatherpreneurship: How to be a Successful Father and Entrepreneur - [link].

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The relative size of the development effort will make a big difference in your strategy.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

In this article, I’ll talk about the process we’re using in our product management-and-development teams to stay innovative. As we grew bigger, we decided to formalize our process for bringing new products to market. Create a high fidelity prototype of product and have clients review both concept and pricing model. The Process.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2018

You’re probably already leaning towards this layout after reading all the rave about the glorious open-plan office. You want a layout that will save you money now as well as in the future and encourage maximum productivity from your employees and improve their satisfaction in the workplace. Open Office.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. be the manager and product developer). Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If your revenue model is the sale of a service or product, your goal could be to get your cost per conversion below a certain amount after 90 days. You can learn more about setting goals in our post on Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals. Their product can also help you track how your content is shared on social media.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2016

Additionally, just the smallest thing on Blogger involved editing the HTML because none of the plugins easily available for the WordPress environment were Blogger friendly. And in terms of the number of images you would ideally need, it would totally depend on your image production systems. It was too time consuming. Does it work?

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the early days I had to apply myself to learn HTML and CSS (I built a hobby website), set up Adwords campaigns, learn SEO tactics and so on.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Is your business idea focused mainly on product promotion, or the service through careful experience design? Simple: through the package’s shape and design, but also through explanations and the product arrangement and choice. I bootstrapped Subbly by building an MVP (“minimum viable product”). Convenience. Usefulness.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 29, 2016

Poorly designed product packaging will sit in the shadows on a shelf. It doesn’t matter how fantastic your product or service might be. The common perception is that creative work is the fat when it comes time to go lean. They should be studying HTML and CSS and PHP and SQL and Java and Python and C++ and beyond.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

(One of the common questions I hear is how to reconcile design and user experience (UX) methods with the Lean Startup. Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin. Eric) A lot of people ask me whether design fits into the lean startup process.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here are your options: PayPal Offspring Go Work at a Start-Up The Hope: You can get some experience and you’ll find your future technical co-founder Why You Should: You don’t have any money saved up and you have no idea how to product manage, acquire users or fund-raise. We tried this at Yipit and failed. link] Mark V. Any advice?

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 2, 2013

Some website projects require that the provider knows certain programming languages besides standard html, such as PHP, AJAX, etc. Upload samples of what you need You can write 5 paragraphs trying to explain the final product, or you can show them something similar you have done before (or someone else's to model yours after).

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 27, 2011

I’ve done everything from designing our website in Photoshop to coding our conversion funnels in html/css. When we started out, we spent about a year designing, building, and perfecting a product that ultimately no one wanted. Truth is, our original idea and product has morphed so many times over the years, and we’ve lost count.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. Because each HTML document (formerly called “pages”) may contain many blocks, Web designers can use mobile devices’ limited screen sizes to their advantage.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Amazed at all the beautifully designed products that came out of only 76 hours. Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. You’re not alone.

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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! Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. What is the minimum viable product? Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” – [link].

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They are full of nonsenseware – cross-sells and up-sells, all kinds of seals and logos, irrelevant other products, promotions, mobile app pimping and so much more. The products you are purchasing dominate the page, right under the main site header. Shows me again if the product is in stock. How soothing. :) 3. the reviews.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The most delicious baked goods in the world start with the pumpkin, whether your tastes lean to the pumpkin breads or the pumpkin pies. High Quality and Responsive HTML Website Templates crowdspring.co/1L8rrSy. I love autumn. Well in part, because I love pumpkin. Not to mention the pumpkin latte! crowdspring.co/1KEbCNV. 1ML78L8.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Two of my favorites are from Flixster and LiveJournal. Expo SF (May.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

So the intention of this post is to lay out the key details of why you should start marketing your startup (or product, or book, or anything else you will launch) months before launch day. Without marketing, your product is nothing more than a project (something you build for fun, not money). Skip it and you’re doomed.

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css-tricks.com

JANUARY 2, 2013

I need a full size image of that product - here you go. Now I need thumbnails of related products - here you go. Then when its good, move staging to "production" (youre live server that your users actually use). This is something that most technology companies fail at, and is reflected in the popularity of their products.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

With all these new tasks, there’s no way you can also manage the projects and client relationships and internal product development, so you’ll need a project manager or a sales person or an office manager or some kind of help, and all of those come out of your profits. Build a product. Lack of focus kills.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market. We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. You need to talk to real people who will use your product. Taste the product. Wear the product. Use the product. Jonathan: Right. Peter: Right.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

For the majority of the naming process, you’ll be iterating on two steps: creating a list of words that are related to your product or service, as well as creating permutations of these words to determine the final name. Example : Pinterest, Etsy product search, Google image search. Are you ready for the good stuff? Use foreign words.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Cheat Sheets : Equip youself with HTML/CSS cheatsheets! s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ?? Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources.

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