crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters? What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters? The Paradoxical Traits of an Entrepreneur | by Jody Porowski – crowdspring.co/1piN6X6. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. What’s the Best Time to Send Email Newsletters?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Email Design Best Practices For Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 27, 2012

I’m pleased to announce that I am once again hosting a Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco this fall. We'll continue our rule of “by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.” They’ll share real-world stories of lean startup principles in action and answer your questions. Some of those folks might be speaker newbies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to Peterson’s Ultimate Home Office Survival Guide, most entrepreneurs who work from home start with less than $5,000. If you’re reading this checklist and still wondering whether or not you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, take the Bplans quiz, Are You Entrepreneur Material? Set up a business email account.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To learn more, we turned to the experts at the Young Entrepreneur Council for their feedback on tactics they’ve used to create a winning opening day strategy. Eyal recommends leaning on your existing business (or even social) network to support you on your big day. The key is to collect contact information, including email.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Heres what I do know: The future strength of our economy depends on its ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs. (If If you are somehow not convinced of this point, Ill let Fareed Zakaria explain ) We know who the next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be. Nerds are not entrepreneurs. They are nerds.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team. I’ll email a brief review of it. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. The Best 10 Solutions For Email Marketing – [link]. Good post by @micah with tips for entrepreneurs demoing a product/service to investors – [link]. Are you listening?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. 10 Design Lessons From HTML Email Templates That Actually Sell – [link]. Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. The Start-up Hall of Shame (America’s 10 Worst States for Entrepreneurs) – [link]. How MailChimp learned to treat data like orange juice and rethink email in the process – [link]. ” [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. How to Grow Your Email Marketing List to 5 Digits and Beyond – [link]. The #1 Mistake Entrepreneurs Make – [link]. How to Grow Your Email Marketing List to 5 Digits and Beyond – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. If you have a mediocre meeting with a high-quality prospect and you don’t think they’re likely to lean in they drop to a B or C.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 26, 2011

I share the column with my colleagues Jack Sinclair and George Bilbrey and we cover how to approach the business of email marketing, thoughts on the future of email and other digital technologies, and more general articles on company-building in the online industry – all from the perspective of an entrepreneur. The Process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

5 Essential Web Apps for the Lean Small Business – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. An entrepreneur tells us how he screwed up his Google acquisition – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. email obsolete?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We didn’t have a PR company or a bunch of contacts, hence we needed to start from scratch. So I took my sweet time Googling different websites that would take submissions, tips or published their editor’s email. Subscribe to our RSS feed or get Traindom blog posts sent to you by email.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Direct email or snail mail to the pre-registered attendees is essential. Particularly leads.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. That Feedburner page lets you subscribe if you want to give your email address. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? March 7, 2009 3:31 PM Eric said. Great post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Amanda Werner is a freaking Valedictorian of her college class and helps out around here with marketing and PR. If you are fortunate enough to receive those cS discount offers in your email, it is becaue of Amanda’s hard work. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. Thanks, Dylan!

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

This list is broken into categories and is meant to be a one-stop-shop for aspiring entrepreneurs. But here at Bplans, we make an effort to provide entrepreneurs with the resources they need to start and run successful businesses. See Also How to Do Your Own PR If You Can’t Afford to Hire an Agency. Entrepreneur.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

It is time to think of your business card as not just a handy way to share your email address, but as a selling opportunity. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 4, 2010 Stop lying on stage Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Many NFPs operate in ways that would not be considered ‘business-like,’ AND these organizations, like their small, for-profit cousins, can benefit by leveraging the ideas and tools that we often discuss in the Lean Marketing series. But one of the tenets os lean marketing is to define short-term and intermediate goals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Eric, Please email me.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2016

I asked the entrepreneurs of the YEC to share with me their biggest takeaways for their businesses from 2015, and what lessons they learned. It’s only been a few months since introducing email marketing workflows aimed at increasing consumer feedback, so many changes are still in development,” says Manpreet Singh of TalkLocal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We'll be discussing the Lean Startup movement, the upcoming conference, and whatever else you decide you want to ask about. You can also email questions during the show at forum@kqed.org Win free conference tickets During the show, tweet your questions (or your favorite quotes from the show). FM or 89.3

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 19, 2011

Here are 10 great tips shared with us by various PR and Media folks that I hope you find useful! If you are doing the interview on the phone, stay away from email and other potential interruptions. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Prepare well. Stay focused.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. 10 Valuable Tips and Tricks for Designing HTML Emails – [link]. Her fascinating story is in the Other section below. Crowdsourcing Examples in Business – [link]. Wholesale Flowers – [link].

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Accessing capital to launch a business is brutal for entrepreneurs just starting out along the path. So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Any entrepreneur with a decent reality distortion field can find metrics that make it look like theyre being successful. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review : The idea is simple.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. The goal is you to learn enough so you can’t be BS’d by a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and golf score. In the perfect world this happens when the founder(s) actually close the first few (3-3000 depending on market) paying customers themselves.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Having an email arrive regularly in your customer’s inbox with content created by you and your business is invaluable. There are many ways to network: send someone an email, make a phone call, engage on social media, etc. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Having an email arrive regularly in your customer’s inbox with content created by you and your business is invaluable. There are many ways to network: send someone an email, make a phone call, engage on social media, etc. Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving.

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