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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

So if entrepreneurs want to pioneer new ideas with a lean model, my advice is to use low cost alternatives to build differentiality that can be protected from institutions with far more money than ethics, creativity, or innovation-- other than skirting the loopholes in our justice system regarding protection of IP, and honing predatory tactics.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Page360 awesome post W3 Consulting Note: you can have multiple domain names: one for conventional (and one for emotional) branding purposes, several for SEO/SEM purposes, and several for Web analytics (where are my *offline* advertising dollars breeding positive ROI?). SCVNGR Makes Major Enhancements to iP. All Rights Reserved.

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

crowdSPRING Blog

Like.com , a image-based matching system for fashion, was acquired by Google in 2010 looks for visual matches based on user’s choices or from images they upload, and uses a unique algorithm to make suggestions on other clothing and jewelry the user might like.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Any IP you need to license? ——————– Mentor List (as of Dec 3 rd 2010). General Marketing, Sales Funnel, etc. Ask your users to take action, such as signing up for a newsletter.

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