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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). Technology evolves and the number of people voicing their opinions keeps growing (welcome to this blog, by the way!)

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We're going to get reviews on blogs.". During beta-testing they would be guinea pigs. If you read this blog you're probably a software developer, so even just a few mentions here might be more powerful than $10,000 in A/B tested Google AdWords. "We're going to A/B-test our landing pages until the right message appears.".

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Twitter Link Roundup #275 – Fascinating Stuff for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Small Business and Startups: Teams and Transparency | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1d6ad8g. “Fresh from the SPRING” features the wonderful work of designer oldpencil | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1e3u2hh. I Was a Human Guinea Pig: 6 Self-Experimentations crowdspring.co/1B4GoAz. crowdspring.co/1GHvoJK.

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Pet Business Ideas That You Can Start Online And At Home

YoungUpstarts

For example, provide guinea pig cage or reptile cage cleaning for people who don’t want to do it themselves. The great thing about a blog is that you can use free blogging websites to get started as you build your audience and content. Are you an expert when it comes to a certain dog breed? Do you live for your lizard gecko?

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. As the students filed into the classroom, my entrepreneurial reality distortion field began to weaken. What if I was wrong? Would anyone even show up?

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6 Creative Ways to Figure Out If You’ve Got a Good Business Idea

Up and Running

Be your own guinea pig. Some business ideas require a human guinea pig or person willing to volunteer to use the product or perform the service. The post 6 Creative Ways to Figure Out If You’ve Got a Good Business Idea appeared first on Bplans Blog. Who better than yourself to see if your idea works?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. Looking forward to more of your posts, this blog is a favorite of ours right now! Thanks to Twitter, I just discovered your blog. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. Great post!

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