A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

We recently underwent a Cinderella-like transformation: A total redesign of the WP Engine website from despicable steaming pile of hideousness to a designed, thematic — dare I say artistic? Modern Lean Startup theory blares out from the red-tiled rooftops of Stanford: Seek the Data and Ye Shall Find! — sleek new look.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Origins of the Lean Startup.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The key to successful marketing is attracting customers and investors to your business through a variety of means, including print ads, website design, public relations efforts, and many other techniques that can attract customers to your business. Choose a unique brand name. Conclusion.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

Through his extensive experience as a rebellious marketer and serial entrepreneur, Alan Dibb has spearheaded a revolutionary approach to marketing known as Lean Marketing. Questions I ask Allan Dib : [01:31] Why Lean Marketing instead of MORE Marketing? [04:12] Lean Marketing, more Leads, more Profit, less Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 27, 2023

PCBs (printed circuit boards) are integral to a whole host of businesses and industries, and so it’s natural that you might be on the lookout for some software that can help you to design yours in a way that suits your needs. When the name of the game is quality, you might find that information like this proves to be highly valuable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. She is also a member of Nike’s Board of Directors and Trustee president of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.)

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Legal Issues: Trade Names, Logos and Trademark Law – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The techniques invented in what has become the Lean Startup movement are now more than ever applicable to reinventing the modern corporation. Today, we’ve come full circle as Lean goes mainstream.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. I recently read this anecdote in the press (withholding company name because I actually really love the concept). Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2023

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, naming your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Stephanie and I wanted to incorporate different elements and symbols of leadership in our business name. 2- Conventional sounding name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. Another terrific post, Eric.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Start-ups are lean and designed to grow or scale up quickly. Unless you’re an expert, it’s worth outsourcing your web design to ensure that you end up with a polished result. For a small fee, you can move from a Gmail or Yahoo email address to one that incorporates your domain name.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2014

—— The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. This week the author of the business model canvas, my friend Alexander Osterwalder, launched his new book Value Proposition Design , the sequel to his million copy best seller, Business Model Generation. Tells you how to design new ventures with it.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Coming up with our business name, Stellar Villa, was quite a process. This allowed us to knock a few more names off the list.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 tips on finding a great name for your company – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2016

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Once he decided to start his own business (as opposed to buying a franchise), the search for a good name began. 2 – A Unique Name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 1, 2021

3:46] Are there any kind of core stories from your upbringing, your family, your culture that you lean on that to tell to help people get your why? [6:10] 15:31] What role do you think design graphic design plays in the support of or elevation of a personal brand? [17:32] Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript. Scroll back to top.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. Excellent talk (video) by @jtwinsor on crowdsourcing & the evolution of the ad/design industry – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

But it’s not as simple as reaching out to a company you want to collaborate with and putting their name on your website in exchange for cash. If your audience isn’t interested in a sponsor’s product or service, then putting their name to your offer won’t deliver the ROI they’re looking for, ruining any chance of a long-term partnership.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Because these Lean Startup people, they do crazy stuff,” Alex joked. “So

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Since the beginning, the team has been involved not only in the pure implementation of the business logic and technological evolution of the system but the overall organization around the project and the design of the business processes into the application. No matter how cliché it may sound, we insist on using clean code.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

“Noobpreneur” is Widjaya’s name for “newbie entrepreneurs” – a special subset of entrepreneurs who are always in a growth mindset. All of her content is designed with small business owners and their marketing needs (and limited budgets) in mind. Image courtesy of Buffer. Look no further.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2013

The following shows three examples of flexible businesses – Apple, PayPal and Amstrad - that’s pivoted and have become so successful they are now household names: [ Infographic credit: quickquid.co.uk ]. Properly pivoted, a startup move away from a path of doom towards one which it may have some degree of success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 25, 2013

The Lean Startup methodology has its roots in the tech sector, where companies need to iterate quickly in order to survive. But the methods have expanded into nearly every industry we can name. Todd Park, the nation’s Chief Technology Officer, cheerfully admitted as much when he spoke at Lean Startup last year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Register your business name. Determine what type of business plan is right for you .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

GumGum now also lists similar clients, including Vodafone and Sprint, a sign of how one big-name client can attract others. LiveRamp’s product is designed to “enable companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes.”.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The concept of time, (specifically time to come), is inherent in our name, NextView. We’ve come a long way these last ten years, and we wanted our new website design to honor that time; retracing our steps, while also walking forward in the direction of digital trends on the horizon. What’s next ? What comes after this?

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

Since the beginning, the team has been involved not only in the pure implementation of the business logic and technological evolution of the system but the overall organization around the project and the design of the business processes into the application. No matter how cliché it may sound, we insist on using clean code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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