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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

What’s awesome is that the ThisWeekIn team now does time coding so you can go directly to the section in the video you want to hear (you need to click on link for video and then below the video in YouTube the links to the exact times will take you to that section in the video). 11:00 Mark on over-hyping PR.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

Popup ads, full-screen mobile ads, and auto-playing and prestitial video ads, for example, all have high disapproval ratings from users, pushing them towards using ad blockers. For example, in the awareness stage use how-to guides, whitepapers, explainer videos, etc. Leverage Performance PR to build trust with cold traffic.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”. Finally: The last bit of the video talks a lot about what Matt has invested in and what excites him.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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Twitter Link Roundup #182 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more!