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Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste in My Mouth

This is going to be BIG.

We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. At least open source it and let the community run it! Once I did start using it, I got hooked. USV funded the company and for nine months, Josh and his team worked just three floors down from us. It was great to watch it grow and develop.

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Beta Testing At Spiceworks: A Surprising Place To Find Qualified Guinea Pigs

ReadWriteStart

Pertino CEO Craig Elliott turned to the Spiceworks.com community of more than 2.4 Elliott and many Pertino employees were already Spiceworks members, and they started with a 20-company private beta program that grew into “a community-exclusive public beta” involving 250 “Spiceheads.”. Speed Wins.

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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? This addresses three problems vexing the news industry: inadequate online community engagement, poor topical search capacity on news sites, and scarcity of targeted online advertising niches. What if I was wrong?

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Pet Business Ideas That You Can Start Online And At Home

YoungUpstarts

Create a Facebook and Instagram page dedicated to your pet sitting and walking services and start sharing them to local community groups and pages. For example, provide guinea pig cage or reptile cage cleaning for people who don’t want to do it themselves. Ask family and friends to share your services as well.

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

Up and Running

Since working in this collaborative environment with a community of talented professionals in other fields, she’s successfully started a web design studio and magazine. Grassroots campaigns usually refer to people getting out into their communities physically, to talk to people directly about an issue or cause. Go grassroots.

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Techstars and The Nature Conservancy

Feld Thoughts

We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Amy is currently on the TNC Global Campaign Committee and on the TNC Africa Affinity Group for Women and Girls. TNC’s global reach makes it a very exciting organization to support.

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User-generated content for startups

The Startup Toolkit

If you don’t have either performance data or best practices, then you need to either charge based on performance (which nobody will be happy about, including you) or spend a while as your own guinea pig running a [set of] user-facing campaign[s]. Both of these take a while and won’t generate revenue. Open problems in UGC.

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