Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. Yet I worry that it deters new entrants from disrupting incumbents: if your idea looks a little dubious, your career a little messy, your team a little dysfunctional, if you lack superhuman design skills, maybe you should just give up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

As the channel gets more and more crowded, just launching an app in the store is getting worse and worse as a strategy for each new entrant. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. My advice: dont launch big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Combining agile development with customer developm. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Writer 2.0

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

is a new web magazine about how wordsmiths will survive in the 21st century – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments – [link]. PR for Startups – [link]. Writer 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? I think its wasteful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 4, 2013

Is Agile Marketing the Future of Search in 2013? The New York Times Paywall Is Working Better Than Anyone Had Guessed | Bloomberg – [link]. Dear Silicon Valley, Ads Are the Hard Part | Digiday – [link]. Will 2013 be the year of conversion optimisation? Econsultancy – [link]. Search Engine Watch – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. News publications print vanity metrics because they want to give their readers information about the companies they cover. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Unfortunately, startup success requires getting them all right. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can capitalize on new customers. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. We can skip the chasm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Expo (and a call for he.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Matt Jones (2010-06-20) # Derek: Interesting article - Im not sure if you realize it, but youve basically described what the Agile community calls "User Stories" You may also want to look into tools like Pivotal Tracker for keeping track of stories and prioritizing / scheduling them. Being accepted in New York is only the beginning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Jeremy Howard : I mean, just the data like Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mongolia, right next to China, a lot of trade, a lot of social back and forth, Chinese New Year, yet they're in double figures, numbers of deaths. And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. Eric Ries : Well that.

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