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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Ill give them the last word: You are already skeptical of Customer Development and Lean Startups and the slew of emerging buzzwords and supple-to-the-point-of-meaningless terms.

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

This is common in B2C apps (Facebook, for example), but it’s still new in B2B apps like Wave Accounting. – Ethan Austin , GiveForward. We focused on drumming up initial interest and building a lean, yet functional product. In other words, advertisers pay to present special offers to our customers.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it.

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How to Identify Your Online Target Audience and Sell More

ConversionXL

The data you need to know depends on the product and whether you have a B2B or B2C business. Austin-based startup Food On The Table started with a target market assumption, and found a mom who plans meals and uses coupons, and spent three weeks shadowing her as she made lists and pushed her cart around the local supermarket.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner. It was originally posted anonymously to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list, and then further developed on the Lean Startup Wiki ’s Case Studies section.