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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The carefully curated pictures depicted on social media were not anywhere close to what MY real life looked like. I knew that stress was the foundation of our issues; it was necessary to change my method and overall business model. They were frustrated and felt like failures. Thanks to Dan DeBaun, Big Berkey Water Filters ! #25-

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The History of Lean Planning

Up and Running

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved toward a more agile planning process. See Also: Lean Planning: A Curated List of Our Best Content. Can the Business Model Canvas replace the business plan? See Also: Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO].

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Let’s explore some progressive interaction models that go beyond touch and into movement, infrared, wearable computing, sound and ambient data to really give us an idea of what our immersive interactive future may hold and how we might curate that future now. And even the best of us make bad hiring decisions.

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Transcript of Creating a Winning SEO Strategy

Duct Tape Marketing

Because you think Google 2006, 2007, if you searched for a really niche keyword, like how to write a press release or something, there were some results but there weren’t that many. That’s the whole business model and it works really well. Brian Dean: Yeah, exactly. Now they have plenty.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I’m not afraid to pick up the phone, cold call someone, use LinkedIn to find someone who’s recently left a company that might be considered competitive and ask them for advise around the business model and marketplace. Curate great links for your ideal customers and share them 3 times per day. I may iterate 3 times in one day.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

It means you're relevant to the business, and if your trip around the cycle is successful, you'll have helped the organization get closer to its goals. Another way to find the metric you want to change is to look at your business model. The business model also tells you what the metric should be.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. So I turned the business model upside down. My business model focuses on the importance of people, which I believe is the root of his success. They’re serving their advertisers.