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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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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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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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8 Small Business Management Strategies for 2020

The Startup Magazine

Our aim with this post is to share a handful of management strategies that you can lean on to not only help you through this recession but also to assist you in thriving at any time. If you’re a company that has traditionally marketed itself to the B2C arena, could you provide value on the B2B front? Invest in Digital.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”? Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. Why should customers choose to do business with you? How do you ensure they have a first-class experience?

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor?

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7 Examples of Effective Cross-selling (and Why They Work)

ConversionXL

Kajabi highlights the benefits of podcasts from the off, with a subject line that leans into three top priorities for businesses: leads , growth, and revenue. By following people around their internet journeys, you can tempt them back to your website. B2C or B2B, all marketing is people talking to people.

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