SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs , February 2, 2010 Looks at the critical equation around customer acquisition cost vs. customer lifetime value similar to what I discussed in Startup Metrics but in more depth. Of course, one of the best ideas around this is to have Negative Customer Acquisition Costs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you have to work on your business as well as in it. Entrepreneur. Social Triggers is the brainchild of Derek Halpern – entrepreneur, marketing expert, and one-man success engine. Want to learn lean marketing tips for your small business? Duct Tape Marketing. Hubspot Marketing Blog. Noobpreneur.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

Kauffman launched Founders School - a new education series to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses during the startup stage by highlighting how startups are different from big companies. These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators with another source of well produced and curated resources.

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Where to Play

MAY 28, 2019

The post How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset appeared first on Where to Play. With a little more thinking up front these entrepreneurs and innovators could have identified more promising business contexts to play in, and thus avoided this difficult pivot down the road.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. And theres so much more.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2014

Kauffman just launched Founders School - a new education series to help entrepreneurs develop their businesses during the startup stage by highlighting how startups are different from big companies. These videos are not only great tutorials for founders but also provide educators another source of well produced and curated resources.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

At Palo Alto Software, I am surrounded by entrepreneurs. Our LivePlan customers are entrepreneurs, our founder and staff have run and sold companies, the Bplans readers are aspiring entrepreneurs (or actual entrepreneurs), and as I sell my own handmade jewelry, I like to think I have a very small claim to the title.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

Lean” doesn’t come to mind when you think of a business that needs trucks, warehouses, cross-docks, and thousands of employees to run efficiently. Hire versatile players and lean into your team The SVB collapse reminded us that staffing matters. Working creatively Our company sits at the center of the logistics and freight industry.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Whether it’s better service, streamlined applications, or greater job curation, there are plenty of ways to disrupt this emerging service. For entrepreneurs looking to start a business or for established businesses looking to pivot their business model , you can use AI to build as-a-service operations. Artificial Intelligence.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2015

What follows is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, the new Editorial Director of The Lean Startup Conference. Kirsten is leading our program development and speaker selection -- curating a four day, multi-tracked, 2000-person event. We’re reaching into the Lean Startup community to find hidden gems--the stories we don't know (yet).

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’ – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 14, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Gone is the Lean Startup Conference as you know it. Welcome instead Lean Startup Week , October 31 - November 6, 2016. And what is this Lean Startup Week? We’re inviting the big names in entrepreneurship to help curate workshops and activities.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Here’s the process: Create a Lean Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. The evolution and the real value of curator are outlined in a great new book “ Curation Nation ,” by Steven Rosenbaum. OnStartups , by Dharmesh Shah.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 15, 2012

We write often about small businesses and startups and lean approaches to marketing and other business functions. The role of the project manager is to act as gatekeeper, curator, editor, and leader and this guidance is vital to the project’s success. This 10-year project invites consumers.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

A Lean Business Plan might be a better fit if you simply need to think through all the different aspects of your business. A Lean Plan will be shorter, and it lends itself to quick revisions, but both types follow the same general outline. They tend to be lengthier and more detailed. Who needs the services you provide.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

With nine out of ten start-ups failing within the first year or even earlier, the lean business model is proving hugely popular, allowing entrepreneurs to get the most for their money when it comes to business development and success. Advisors and Mentors. Outsourcing. Make Savvy Purchases.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2022

(This blog post was first published as an article in Entrepreneur Magazine on April 15.). A lot of CEOs treat board curation as an afterthought, which means that boards tend to consist largely of who happened to be in their network at the company’s inception: investors. Over time, they’ll lean in, too.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It needs to help us to discover and curate content that is relevant to us from all the noise. accelerators like Entrepreneur First actively targeting machine learning talent), and the location of target customer hubs?—?financial, Search needs to be able to deal with the inexact, subjective and personal, just like humans do.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners of a word that could represent their business in 2021. I selected curate because it represents that I am the director of my museum which is my life and my business. Interesting to note that curate is based in the Latin word cura which means care. Photo Credit: Brian Donovan.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business. Try using a Lean Plan template to get you started.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Be sure to take our quiz to find out if you’re entrepreneur material , too. People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. Analyze your industry.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 27, 2020

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they break through the noise with their noise and here are insightful responses; #1- Being authentic in what we do. For the last 3 years, we have been hosting client and prospect dinners where we curate the participants and invite them to an intimate night of deep conversations.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

A subsegment of those instructors – those trying to teach Lean LaunchPad, whether in I-Corps, or Hacking for Defense – have an additional burden of figuring out how to teach a class that depends on students getting out of the building and talking to 10 to 15 customers a week. Here’s what we learned. And so it began.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Furthermore, most of the young entrepreneurs’ problems I’ve seen are related to poor planning. Pick your poison, fellow entrepreneur! I am a huge advocate for the lean way of starting and running a business. Product curation and searching for products. Those were the days! Added value is a must.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Entrepreneur and motivational speaker Gary Vaynerchuk for example, came up just once. Top marketers rely more on people, not websites, to curate content. Many times, successful marketers follow a small amount of people, making each follow count. Follow the practitioners. It’s even harder to get a minute of their time.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For viewers, it provides a one-stop curated list of what’s available to watch right now – along with which service its available on and how much it costs, if it’s an on-demand movie, for example. In the image below you can see the Drops Mix Chart – curated lists from users that have been voted the most popular.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! 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.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 14, 2019

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide , a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! I posed this question to a high school entrepreneur club. What is a franchise? Their answers were interesting: “A franchise is a business that you see in different cities. What are their needs?

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We are an experienced team of entrepreneurs and operators who have scaled multiple businesses throughout our careers. to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Think of us as a shortcut to scaling your leadership team. We believe there is a better way for startups and scaleups to find executive talent.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Becky is an entrepreneur, writer, artist, and philosopher of creative, adventurous living. For those of us entrepreneurs who may feel that our plate is already full, this idea to start more than you can finish might seem counterintuitive. She's an entrepreneur, writer, artist and philosopher of creative, adventurous living.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

We are an experienced team of entrepreneurs and operators who have scaled multiple businesses throughout our careers. to leaning in to our board (hit or miss, inefficient). Think of us as a shortcut to scaling your leadership team. We believe there is a better way for startups and scaleups to find executive talent.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Take the time and effort to curate content that you think will be valuable to your customers and your online audiences; by learning which types of content and which subjects are of interest, you can learn a great deal about your followers and your customers. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. ” These companies are all working on really, really cool things.

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