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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I am somewhat of an expert in this having created one of the first pioneering labs and incubators in the Internet era, from N AZ where the normal course of action was to prove lean ventures with our retirement only to see them copied by deeper pockets on the coasts when we went searching for capital.

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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. People consciously try to create names with unique keywords so theirs will be the only result in targeted Google searches. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Is It Sticky?

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Or more accurately, startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model.) to optimize this search. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost.

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The Direct-to-Consumer Checklist

Austin Startup

How will you take advantage of SEO and SEM? For an emerging brand that most people haven’t heard of, you can build trust with potential customers with high search ranking and having relatable content available. Have you thought about how potential IP theft would impact your business? How will you effectively utilize influencers?

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Historically, searches for online images have been accomplished by searching for the meta-data associated with the image – the tags and words used to describe the picture. New technology is allowing for computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases.