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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. I have been in favor of lean development.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

Matt was one of my inspirations behind Launchpad LA (yes, we’re going to have a program in 2011 – news very, very soon). 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”.

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Twitter Link Roundup #77 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Joint PR/Ad study finds PR getting higher marks in social media compared to Advertising [link]. Exciting Web Design Trends to look out for: 2011 Edition – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. Half Of U.S. 12-Year-Olds Are Facebooking – [link].

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times.

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Twitter Link Roundup #70 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. 42 Fresh PS Tutorials In Early 2011 – [link].

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Twitter Link Roundup #66 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

5 Essential Web Apps for the Lean Small Business – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Ten Crowdsourcing Trends for 2011 – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link].