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Ecommerce Trendwatching: How To Find, Follow, and Set Trends

ReadWriteStart

Kearney , for instance, found out that more than a third of US, France, and Germany weekly buyers have already signed up for subscriptions, whereas 12% are still debating this service. 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models. .” To boost clients’ moods, some companies include testers of upcoming products.

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Host a Livestream of The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. For the 2010 and 2011 Lean Startup conferences , we offered the complete conference for simulcast so that people could join in from their communities around the world. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities.

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

It’s part two of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Here’s part 2 of my series of blog posts about my learnings from starting 6Wunderkinder and creating Wunderlist. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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Not Everyone Is The Right Customer

crowdSPRING Blog

A few days ago, Christian Jung, a designer and consultant from Germany wrote an interesting post – Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End Of A True Love. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups. Not everyone is the right customer. Do you agree? The Culture of Customer Service.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Italy, France and Germany are now in our top 15 download countries. Tentatively, I lean towards the first because it’s closer to how people search, as in “Find a vacation,” whereas the latter is more “marketish.” My co-founders told me their dream is to get covered on this large tech blog. What a splurge! You get the picture.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Both Sides of the Table

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004. Using Balsamiq instead of SnagIt, Website Optimizer over just Google Analytics and FTP).

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. We flew these unarmed planes in and out of Germany alongside our bombers and basically built up the “radar order of battle.&# That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.