YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You can click here to read some useful tips on small business online marketing. An app can not only offer an easy platform for people to make mobile purchases, but it can also ensure that customers are constantly reminded of your business every time they open their phone (which could lead to an increase in return customers). .

Marketing 246

Marketing Social Media PPC SEO 246

Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

Silicon Valley 305

Silicon Valley Lean Utah Customer Development 305

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Many entrepreneurs use the phrase “It’s not personal; it’s business” to justify keeping their customers at arm’s length. But the truth is, especially if you’re at the head of a small business, every customer interaction is personal. If that makes you uncomfortable, relax. Risk stepping out from behind technology.

Customer 155

Customer Technical Review Florida Tampa 155

Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. There are many assumptions that can get in the way of starting and running a business. It’s the ultimate startup guide if you’re looking for systematic business growth and guidance on what not to do. B y Michael E. B y Cindy Alvarez.

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Startup Venture Capital Angel Investor Lean 80

Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2017

5:30 Pricing (Customer Validation, Sales, Pricing). 8:30 Customer Discovery (What is the Lean Stack). 12:37 Small Businesses vs. Scalable Startups (Should I take Risk Capital). 21:25 How Do You Find Out What Customers Really Want? Customer Discovery, Pivots) Filed under: Customer Development.

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Lean Customer Development Developer Video 147

Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2020

Mango Lango – Mobile app that allows small businesses to reopen safely. Remote Daily – Simplified employee feedback for small businesses. MatchBook – Hiring platform structured similarly to dating apps. MemLove – Helping people grieve for lost loved ones. MUSTA – Telemedicine platform for patients in the Philippines.

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Peru Philippines Mobile Global 291

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Not all start ups want to go in that direction – some will opt instead to become a small business. There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

Global 335

Global Australia Silicon Valley China 335

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2014

The Top Google Analytics Reports for Assessing Mobile Activity written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. This functionality requires custom development to set up, which you can read more about here. Google Mobile Search Engines Small Business Mark Hansen'

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Analytics Mobile Channel Conversion 65

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm.

Oregon 312

Oregon Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital 312

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. Entrepreneurship often describes a small business whose owner starts up a company i.e. a plumbing supply store, a restaurant, a consulting firm. of all businesses. Make no little plans.

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Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 276

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

If customers stop paying their monthly subscription they don’t just lose access to the Adobe Creative Suite software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) The consequence of discarding low margin customers and optimizing revenue and margin in the short-term, Adobe risks enabling future competitors. Customer Development Marketing Tesla'

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation.

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 195

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In fact, by the start of class they had ~$750K in revenue for 2011 – not quite Facebook but a nice small business. The Lean LaunchPad class works for existing businesses as well as new startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching'

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Small Business Administration. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

The Small Business Innovative Research ( SBIR ) and Small Business Technology Transfer ( STTR ) programs are startup seed funds created by Congress to encourage U.S. small businesses to turn Government-funded research into commercial businesses. Here’s Edmund’s description of the I-Corps Lite program.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Understanding the Consequences of the Business Decisions You Fudge On – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings?

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

Even large multi-national companies talk to their trusted customers about new ideas to get validation and or ideas for product development. Small businesses often times are not aware of their network and the people they can access to get important feedback just by asking. Customer Development.

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Stealth Partner Developer Networking 194

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. The holiday season has begun, and small business owners in the retail and hospitality industries are operating in what is often their busiest time of year. First, the focus should be on the front line – the staff.

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Customer Distribution Government Agile 100

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

Oracle aims to help customers develop their operations and enhance their experience with the cloud. Oracle helps the customer get started by familiarizing them with the available cloud options. Cloud computing has enabled startups and small businesses to compete with large ones because it is flexible and affordable.

Cloud 82

Cloud Artificial Inteligence Matching Hosting 82

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company. None of them were entrepreneurs or owned a small business. And that wasn’t that long ago either!)

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sarah Calhoun has spent two decades building nonprofits and small businesses. She was the 2012 National Women in Business Champion for the Small Business Administration. In 2011, she served as a as a US Delegate to the APEC Women in Business Summit in San Francisco. Clips from their interviews are below.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Monaco San Francisco Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

Silicon Valley 181

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 181

ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

Small business looking to upgrade their current site (Small-Biz). The post Everything You Need To Know About Designing Valuable Customer Surveys appeared first on ConversionXL. Professional web designers purchasing themes for clients website (Designer).

Customer 76

Customer Design Software Review Lead Generation 76

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research.

Engineer 278

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 278

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2010

As a good student of startup theory, especially modern theories of customer development, this time I was methodical and purposeful. If you want a step-by-step, here's a great guide and checklist of how to do early customer development by Ash Maurya. This time, though, it was intentional. And it worked.

Startup 239

Startup Campaign Turkey Customer Development 239

Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica Mah , founder of InDinero , provider of accounting software and tax services for small businesses. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Jessica Mah. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Peggy Burke , founder of 1185 Design digital brand agency. Peggy Burke.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Customer Development 120

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. If you don’t like podcasts, this self-paced video course by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is for you. In fact, there’s even a trailer that will help you decide whether or not to get started!

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Curation Lean Software Review Finder 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Small Business Administration , and Hillary Hartley , deputy executive director of 18F. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Listen to my full interviews with Nigel and Vaughn and with Kerry by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.).

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur North America Cofounder Silicon Valley 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2011

Steve Blank is a retired serial entrepreneur, educator, thought leader and creator of the rigorous "Customer Development" methodology detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany." They'll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. Until today.

Silicon Valley 118

Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Balance Sheet Lean 118

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2013

by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “ So, you’re building a small business from the ground up, with only the proverbial wing and prayer to keep you aloft. Anything that takes your focus off the customer puts your fledgling business in harm’s way. What are you most intensely focused on?

Small Business 169

Small Business Reputation Customer Employee 169

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Well, it turns out that to port long tail productivity apps to Google's App Engine is a somewhat cumbersome job, and requires a lot of custom development. The long tail apps can easily be ported to or developed on Google App Engine in a third of the time and cost using OrangeScape as an application platform. Enter OrangeScape.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley India Massachusetts 114

www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

lol [link] Cubicle Dropout I plan on starting several small business ventures (1-3 employees), what sort of formal advisory panel would be suggested? Thanks [link] Cubicle Dropout I plan on starting several small business ventures (1-3 employees), what sort of formal advisory panel would be suggested?

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