Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2014

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happy to see a new book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. dream team entrepreneur startup technical'

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The sales professional.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. It’s a new year and right after the ball drops, it’s time to go to work.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. To have the correct image in technology means businesses must have a thorough understanding of the field of public relations (PR). It seems clear that most entrepreneurs need help to navigate the ultra-dense tech industry PR environment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

o Huge on PR, “Be Everywhere” is his motto – fly to NY, proactively everywhere he could get press. o Early on they hired 3 people from ACT software at once (more team hiring) on staff and supplement it with Agency (in LA worked with First Communications – good). To make PR big you need to find a way to “make news”.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

While many traditional jobs still can’t function remotely, or have difficulty adjusting, many entrepreneurs have found success in starting a business from home. Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Build an active online presence (be your own PR person!).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – crowdSPRING – [link]. Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies – [link]. What are the most common mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make? So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As entrepreneurs, more than any other industry, we’re in the meritocracy business. If women face structural barriers to becoming entrepreneurs, then those few who are able to overcome those barriers are probably exceptional to begin with. Or, maybe it is true that women make better entrepreneurs than men.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. What a bubble means for each entrepreneur. Still, market amnesia by ordinarily rational actors always surprises me. I believe that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Yet every entrepreneur I meet wants to talk about the idea, and rarely mentions the team. Thus I was happy to see a recent book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. The sales professional.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. The Daily Routines of 7 Famous Entrepreneurs and How to Design Your Own Master Routine – crowdspring.co/18q9ZDp. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Paradoxical Traits of an Entrepreneur | by Jody Porowski – crowdspring.co/1piN6X6. This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. | WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. ” | by Seth Godin – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Hire the absolute best and the brightest, true experts in their fields, who in turn can hire the smartest people possible to staff their departments. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – Lara Miller – [link]. What It’s Like To Be An Entrepreneur – @GrubHub – [link]. Joint PR/Ad study finds PR getting higher marks in social media compared to Advertising [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. Half Of U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 12, 2013

Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack | Bill J. The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack | Bill J. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. 7 reasons for entrepreneurs to avoid tranched investments | VentureBeat – [link]. Make Deadly Sure You Hire the Right One.

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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. Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 22, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. 5 Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic – [link]. The Key to Startup Hiring: Build a Magnet – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Linkedin Founder Reid Hoffman’s Advice for Entrepreneurs | KISSmetrics Blog – [link]. What Western And Chinese Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Each Other | Forbes [link]. “Leadership has nothing to do with titles.”

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), We hired union laborers to do that. The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. I couldn’t care less about those.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO | Reid Hoffman - [link]. Quora - [link].

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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? Assess your situation. Box address.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 9 Tech Entrepreneurs Share Their Secrets to Success | Entrepreneur – [link]. Misfit Entrepreneurs | Dan Pallotta-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Three things Startups and Small Businesses can do to impress and delight customers | Entrepreneur – [link]. Three things Startups and Small Businesses can do to impress and delight customers | Entrepreneur – [link]. 10 of the most counterintuitive pieces of advice from famous entrepreneurs | The Buffer Blog – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. 4 reasons why PR firms are taking over social media – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link]. How To Name Your Company – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2013

Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Hire People Who Make Things Happen (get rid of the rest) – [link]. Chicago startups connecting with big local companies, entrepreneurs and corporations | by Wailin Wong – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Speaking – [link].

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. 4 Things You Must Do to Hire the Perfect Candidate | [link] – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! Empower Your Small Business – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

It doesn’t matter if it has been said before and repeated numerous times, quotes can give you the fire you need to be a better entrepreneur or learn how to handle a difficult situation. Below are some of those quotes sent in by entrepreneurs throughout the country. #1 I’m a big believer of lean startup.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

While I love TechCrunch, the post and the quote about the PR agency (“one PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy, throw ethics out the window&# ) left me wondering; how do PR agencies interact with TechCrunch and other blog and review sites? Is this behavior an outlier or is it the norm in the PR industry?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Hire capable employees with little work experience. For those moments when you have smaller tasks that don’t warrant a new hire but that you just can’t add to your already full plate, Simon Slade of Affilorama.com suggests microcontracting. DIY Marketing and PR. “Lean is in. Microcontract.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Bill Gates: We need crazy energy entrepreneurs – [link]. What Every Start-up Should Know about PR – [link]. Do you really need a full-time hire for that? Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. – [link].

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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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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. 7 reasons for entrepreneurs to avoid tranched investments | VentureBeat – [link].

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