A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Sure, when WP Engine launches a new product, the marketing department needs predictability for the launch date, but that’s because it’s a highly-skilled, well-funded group, which explodes with press, events, campaigns, social media, and newsletters, grabbing more attention in a single week than a smaller company might garner in a year.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 12, 2019

Cynthia was listed as top personal branding experts in 2017 by Entrepreneur, top 50 marketers on SnapChat by Mashable , top 12 Female Entrepreneurs that Inspire by Darling Magazine , and the Top 20 people in SEO by Guardian. Lean on your team and let them be responsible. The next key would be the prioritization key.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2015

You''ve helped make the first week of my Kickstarter campaign a success—we''ve blown through our funding goal and are scrambling to add new backer rewards to replace the ones you''ve all sold out. Fittingly, he started it off with a Kickstarter campaign. Thank you - thank you - thank you! Read the detailed update here ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. After so many of you stepped forward to show your support in last years 2gov campaign , I got a call out of the blue from a member of Senator Lugars staff. You can judge for yourself if we lived up to that promise: Lean Startup SmackDown from Frank Gruber on Vimeo.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date. The lean business plan is great news because it makes the planning process much less daunting. More on that in the section on the Lean Plan.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Entrepreneurs aren’t superheroes. But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. Entrepreneurs who demonstrate to venture capitalists that they have a comprehensive digital marketing plan are more likely to make funders sit up and take notice.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. He also advises aspiring entrepreneurs to look into getting liability insurance. The government regulations for employees is far too burdensome and expensive. Free Business Plan Template. Step 3: Branding.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

That’s the thing about someone who is a government systems wonk. They want the government to stay out of their way but they definitely want the government to come and ticket the car blocking the driveway, to stop construction noise, and to solve homelessness but definitely not to put low-income housing on their street.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

This is a company that when they were founded, it wasn’t just that they were competing against other companies, but they were competing against industries and regulations and governments that wanted to essentially regulate them out of existence. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2015

The challenge of innovating inside a big company was the focus of discussion with the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Andrew Breen , vice president of product delivery for American Express’s World Service division.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. Plus, after years on the campaign trail, I know there is life after loss. What did our customers think?

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 24, 2018

As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. So instead of spending time and money promoting your idea for funding, use Ash Maurya’s book “Running Lean” coupled with your own savings to get to the first iteration of a new product available for sale.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. Stock Quotes. more in Small Business. Live Chat Recap.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And then how are some ideas for other entrepreneurs and other people thinking of doing it?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Ramon Ray , a successful entrepreneur, speaker, best selling author, and one of the country’s top small business experts, meets with thousands of small business owners every year. Entrepreneur outlined this in their look at USP : Pinpointing your USP requires some hard soul-searching and creativity. New employees.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 10, 2013

As social media platforms continue to mature, we will be seeing more examples of viral videos, viral campaigns, viral __. So instead of spending time and money promoting your idea for funding, use Ash Maurya’s book “Running Lean” coupled with your own savings to get to the first iteration of a new product available for sale.

Viral 145

Viral Social Media LLC Mobile 145

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. Most boards have an audit committee, a nominating governance committee and a comp committee. And then how are some ideas for other entrepreneurs and other people thinking of doing it?

Silicon Valley 36

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 6, 2018

It was my pleasure to talk with Henry about what he and Heimans have learned about how power structures are changing, how people can get started making the shift from old to new power, how the principles of new power are related to the principles of lean startup, and the responsibilities that come with all the amazing energy being channeled.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 11, 2022

VCs and entrepreneurs can play a role in addressing the challenge by shunning known sources of adversarial capital. By week 2 of the class students formed teams around a specific technology challenge facing a US government agency and worked throughout the course to develop their own proposals to help the U.S. Team ShortCircuit.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. If an entrepreneur were to walk into a VC firm and say ‘I’m launching something and I’m basing it on a fact pattern from a hundred twenty years ago. Then the government says ‘hey, great news!

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

My support of Hillary Clinton this election coincides with my distaste for the Trump campaign. Personally, I’m committing time and dollars for the next four months to campaign for Hillary but also speak with and learn more about the local and national economic challenges many communities face. Donald Trump does not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016 ! I can't tell you how moving it is to get to shake so many hands of entrepreneurs from around the world. There are real policy implications for what we do as entrepreneurs also on the ballot this year so I urge you to take it seriously. The evidence is clear.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Do you “entrepreneurs” really think a guy or gal that can compile Linux on a bicycle wants to write a secure payment processor on an iPhone, or a Flash app that runs on every browser? I am an entrepreneur and own a start-up, and have hired many coders over the years. And it was slow going to master that. … James.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This is all the census information that the government collects every few years. To Tim Berry’s point, who was on this podcast a little while ago in a lean planning episode, a lot of this stuff comes from iterative thinking. It’s a podcast in which he interviews entrepreneurs and gives growth tips. Peter: Okay.

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