crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. Optimizing Conversion Rates with 5 Quantitative & Qualitative Tests (Part 2) – [link]. – [link]. Power of Social Cloud – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

by Dan Adams , president of Advanced Industrial Marketing and author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ Right now our economy and our nation feel anything but business-friendly. If you don’t, then how can you design and price your product and know whether it’s worth pursuing in the first place?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

The movement has inspired a powerful community that includes leaders from enterprise organizations, government agencies, nonprofits, and early stage startups. We are also on staff at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as project coaches for the Product Development and Market Research Course.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Board and Governance issues arise from day one in most startups. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. The rest will take care of itself.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

There’s something about the combination of human nature (rationalization and self deception) and large hierarchical organizations (corporations, military, government, etc.) The VP of an operating division had run into trouble in product development; the product was late and getting later. Lie to My Face. Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2018

It slows product development. A study by the Nielsen Norman Group (NNG) showed that commercial enterprises—as well as non-profits and government agencies—consistently generate a strong ROI from investments in usability. Lead generation sites can expect to double their conversion rates. It costs money. It has no clear ROI.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Geoffrey Moore Author of Crossing the Chasm and four other books, Geoffrey Moore has been thinking about high-tech product development longer than most of have been doing anything on a computer. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. The power of A/B testing is so under-exploited in product development, that Im trying new ways to explain its benefits.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In addition to entrepreneurship, she has a background in chemical engineering, supply chain management, biomedical engineering research, microbiology research, and new product development for U.S. Governments are also investing heavily in health care to combat chronic and critical illnesses.” and Indian companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. What I am most proud of is what I hope will be a significant contribution to our collective conversation about entrepreneurship. What really constitutes product/market fit?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Stickiness, Ben and Alistair say, is where people move on too quickly--they don’t make sure they really have a product that has the right features and functionality to meet their customers’ needs. To help turn the conversation specifically to non-tech companies—the topic of our webcast this week —we asked Alistair to answer a few questions.

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ithacaVC

JULY 16, 2012

Rather, the directors should ask officers for their views on company culture, strategy, product development and related high level matters. One way to ensure this is to establish the “director to officer” communication channel very early and make it part of the normal governance procedures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

#g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. Federal government should do nothing. Startup=Experiment. link] Amen!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There''s two things at work here: as new information comes into that room, it''s as easy as an offhand comment or a lunch conversation to share. That is, once you’re no longer a small company and you have some success, how do you execute and continue to grow through innovation?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

His wife, about my age, could have been a poster child for the stereotypical California hippie surfer, with politics that matched her style – antiwar, anti government, antiestablishment. But it was a bit incongruous to hear her get wound up and rail against our government and the very people we were all working for.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. The conversation shouldn't end after conversion. The Proof Is In The Revenue. Hiring The Right Candidate. You see someone else's work and feel undeniable misery. Keep going.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 24, 2024

6- Increase in supply of junk cars Photo Credit: Troy Webber Those who live by the crystal ball often eat glass” is one of the prophetic clichés I try to govern my business by. It is a little early to be making any plans for the year, but I think that we are finally seeing new car production ramp back up to near pre-pandemic levels.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. Many industries are very difficult to penetrate from the outside, e.g. healthcare, education, government services, and more. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects. Rock Health).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

Through the right data sharing, governance and public-private partnerships— we can escape healthcare’s historically unsuccessful “fix via mandate” approach, pivoting to a patient-centered, just, healthcare system. Support Your Fellow Entrepreneurs, Vote in SXSW 2020 Panel Pickers!

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. P.S. Do #1.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Traction begets more traction if you are able to jump on it. If you cannot gain traction in 1 year, pivot. Find your Allen Morgan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. For example, IMVU is a user-generated, a la carte, merchandising product. The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. In other words, a marketing department.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I’ve seen conversion teams nestled under marketing that resulted in product teams making their own testing tools, running unscientific tests, and making changes that didn’t align with marketing changes. The best configuration I have seen was when the conversion team was organized within a data and analytics organization.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Catalin Braescu • Nov 15, 2010 this rockstar conversation is nonsense - the more experienced the more hurdles will be created imbo. As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. I am talking about self-appointed 10x egostars, not real solid software engineers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks. IMVU is one great tornado.

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