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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. . – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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CXL Live 2022 Recap: Main Takeaways From 6 World-Class Marketers

ConversionXL

Over 300 old and new faces flew to Austin to spend two days full of networking and talks on growth and experimentation. More networking and curated roundtables, less gurus and swag. CXL Live 2022 was a blast. Add to that breakfast tacos, a lot of beer, and three parties. These are the highlights of each one.

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Acquire New Users by Adding Growth Hacking to your Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Common assets for SaaS companies include: Free trials Product demos Freemium offers with limited features Webinars How to guides Whitepapers. A person receives an email about an endorsement, they visit the platform to view it, and then they’re nudged to endorse people in their own networks. Revival messaging. Chatbots and live chat.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. We're going to start with our own network and grow it from there.". We're going to use an affiliate program so our customers sell it for us.". Then he'll describe his cutting-edge platform — cloud-based, scalable, distributed version control, continuous integration, one-click-deploy.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you wish there was a product to help companies “Get things done” by leveraging your own employees, your employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around you? . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. Would you like to have a salary from day one that you work full-time on your startup? Sounds great!

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Looking 4 entrepreneurial product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service. Do you wish there was a product to help advocacy organizations and companies “Get things done” by leveraging their own employees, their employees’ networks, and more broadly other influencers around them? . Do you want to make America functional again ?

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

Among the dozens of recent examples we’re aware of, here are just a few from 2013 alone that make the point: TechCrunch Disrupt kicked off with hackathon demos that included an app called “Titstare” and, separately, a guy on stage simulating masturbation. Whether intended as jokes, plenty of people saw them as far from funny.