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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

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Investors can also be skittish, and winning new customers is not easy. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. As a startup, you probably don’t have much money to spend on marketing or product development.

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Ideas Aren’t Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation Chapter Six. Ideas need development and implementation — get that done and you’ve still got to run the business. I’ll touch on them later in Guerilla Innovation (this online book) but, this book is primarily about innovation — that component of a business where value is created.

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How You Ask for Innovation Matters

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I’ve said for some time that innovation should be everyone’s job, and it’s not just for R&D or product development teams. For example: “How Might We improve our customer service experience?” AND… This is a great study to support broader innovation efforts.

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Beware The Consultant

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Tracking such revenue can be a challenge but is possible to approximate the revenue impact of PR activities via the use of unique URLs, customer surveys, etc. Any function within your startup that involves iterative learning, passion and/or close proximity to your customers should not be outsourced. Passion Cannot be Outsourced.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. Our model at Casual Corp.

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How to Turn Your Hobby Into a Business

Up and Running

The pressure of working to a schedule and meeting financial goals and customer expectations simply took away the fun, relaxation and personal satisfaction they had previously got doing it. You’re probably going to be wearing a lot of hats for a while – accountant, customer service rep, brand ambassador, CEO, etc. Develop a Plan.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?