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Must Everyone Innovate? A How-To for the Uninspired

The Startup Magazine

Use the pricing and specifications from the initial order to launch a new product line. This strategy puts the customer at the heart of innovation, allowing them to guide your product development. This one stymies many organizations, but applying lean principles can help innovation here. Your sales process?

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Five Questions for Lean Content Creator Stephanie Hay

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference, who has created content for a number of startups. In our ongoing exploration of how people actually implement Lean Startup methods in their workplaces, we’re asking practitioners to share their techniques. Steph: Segmentation and timing. Steph: For me, it leads.

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Twitter Link Roundup #235 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD. Testing Mobile: Emulators, Simulators And Remote Debugging | Smashing Magazine – crowdspring.co/XpCEXp. Hiring startup engineers?

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). The Inc story, and many others, does a good job emphasizing its lean-ness.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Either way, I hope you’ll share your experiences, too.

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Kiwi lean startup + Australia next

Startup Lessons Learned

If anyone is interested, the Wellington Lean Startup Meetup is a good place to start. Im particularly looking forward to inaugurating the Sydney Lean Startup meetup. For now, youll have to make do with the slides from my keynote at Webstock: 2010 02 19 the lean startup - webstock 2010 View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example.