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Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels

crowdSPRING Blog

The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. The USPS has a great demo tool which allows you to play with targeting zip codes, routes and customer types and that gives you a real time cost and will estimator.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 6: Channel Hypotheses

Steve Blank

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment with a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. There are two major channels: physical channels and virtual (web/mobile) channels.

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Learning Through Reflection

Steve Blank

We just finished the 6 th annual Lean LaunchPad class. For the last 6 years I’ve taught the Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford and Berkeley. Therefore, we developed the 8-week Lean LaunchPad class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product.

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How to Craft a Digital Advertising Strategy that Combats Rising Costs and Captures New Customers

ConversionXL

Influencer Marketing defines it as: “…creating content that will be promoted through paid distribution channels like sponsored placements, advertisements, and pay-per-click campaigns. In the consideration stage, use demo videos, webinars, free trials, etc. Experiment with new and emerging platforms and channels.

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Customer Discovery In the Time Of the Covid-19 Virus

Steve Blank

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. Rather than doing every demo of your MVP live, consider 1) recording it 2) highlighting the key points. Break your MVP demo into <1 minute segments. Take the time to zoom in. Lessons Learned.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

Business plans presume that building a startup is a series of predictable steps requiring execution of a plan which assumes a series of known facts: known customers, known features, known pricing, known distribution channel. Let’s Teach Lean Via Experiential Learning. Designing the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps Class – the “Pedagogy”.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. I believe the analogy is identical for entrepreneurship.The capstone entrepreneurship classes like NSF I-Corps or a Lean LaunchPad class, are for those who have already decided they want to be entrepreneurs.

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