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Talking Lean Analytics With Alistair Croll

Up and Running

When launching a new company or marketing campaign, your major concern shouldn’t be whether or not you can execute on the plan. This was the major theme behind a discussion my company hosted recently with “Lean Analytics” author Alistair Croll. We shot the video during this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas.

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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. If you are attempting to apply lean startup ideas in your own business - you are not alone.

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The Lean Startup Book is here

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Expo SF (May.

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

We determined that we could best monetize the business by focusing on online marketing, particularly our pay-per-click services. We didn’t throw away all of our business plan, but tabled some ideas with the mindset of re-introducing them when the company could support and scale them. – Ethan Austin , GiveForward.

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Live From the Startup Bus – Snufulupugus Pivot (Post #2)

Up and Running

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience this week on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. Before we left Chicago, I emailed the grandaddy of the Lean Startup movement , Eric Reis , for some ultra lean skinny tips. You can catch up with Post #1 in this series here. .

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. Expo SF (May.