ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Forms of funding. ? Equity investment. Equity investment is the most popular and most talked-about avenue for startup funding. These investments are made instead of shares or equity in your startup. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

With one of the many new tools , and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2020

An insurance agent doesn’t need to be licensed with a broker-dealer, but if you want to sell equities, you will need that licensing. Many agents have found video conferencing to be a huge benefit: Someone who was unable to come into the office for a meeting is often willing to have a 20-minute video conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein , co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference this fall. Last week , we announced the date and venue for The Lean Startup Conference: Dec 3 - 4, 2012 at the InterContintenal in SF. Where have applied a lean approach to a new problem we haven’t considered?

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Steve Blank

MAY 24, 2021

What is the “new normal” for Lean Education? Will using video to “get out of the building” still play a role? What roles do diversity, equity and inclusion play in future syllabi? How will the push for diversity, equity and inclusion affect educators? Now we’re heading back into the classroom and the world has changed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Determined not to miss another opportunity, Graham has begun waiving fees and instead taking equity in clients he thinks have a good shot at success. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Honorees Resources.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Over time, other popular influencers…have begun working with the brand and regularly post photos and upload YouTube videos wearing the clothing.” [via Brand equity is the reason people choose Coca-Cola over Pepsi and Google over Bing. Consistency.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! – [link].

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Inbound marketing for lead generation maps to the buyer journey and focuses on awareness-building marketing campaigns across multiple touchpoints, such as: Blogging ; Email marketing ; Social media marketing ; Referral marketing ; SEO optimized website landing pages ; Audio and video content. ABM makes sense. Company perception.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley. See, the math is easy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends!

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Before the Startup – crowdspring.co/1rGYDDQ.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

So we were proud earlier this week to announce our program for The Lean Startup Conference , which comprises approximately 40% women and 25% people of color. Our approach was deliberate, and we want to share it with you, in the hopes that you can replicate it for other conferences and for processes like hiring where equity is important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. Dont panic.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. The Lean LaunchPad course online. The Slides/Video tab on the top of this page has all the open source course material for my classes.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 8, 2013

There is a good post up today on Segment.io describing how they used Kickstarter as a lean startup tool to validate demand. But there is more to running a Kickstarter campaign than making a nice video and watching the pledges roll in. First the background: Kickstarter is the perfect way to validate an idea. Startup general interest'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

if you don't have experience with venture debt you might want to listen to this bit in the video - we talked a lot about how it works]. Lean startup: o It’s situational so some businesses are operationally/people intensive, high LTV (lifetime value) means you can spend more upfront. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur?

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. Staying “lean&# is not an option. Then there is a certain size market for A round VCs, B round VCs and growth equity investors willing to put $50 million to work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Last year, I traveled to dozens of cities talking about lean startups and meeting people interested in entrepreneurship.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How Much Equity Do Your Employees Deserve?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 107

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Formspring – A Postmortem – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But a certain amount gets lost in the headlines – especially when not everybody actually heard the video and knows the nuance of the message. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones. Fair enough.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Videos/presentations. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

But since he talks about it in the video I’ll spill the beans. We discussed all of this and more in the video. 10:30 Question from the chat: How do you define the difference between traditional VC and private equity? His latest passion? 500px is in Toronto. 500px is in Toronto. What’s your take on that?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. Can you capture more brand equity by executing marketing tactics in new or better ways? Most of their video content is behind-the-scenes footage of their people in their office environment. Why should customers choose to do business with you?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

John Jantsch (01:11): So that's a lot in the CMOs job, particularly diversity, equity, inclusion. We have Alzheimer, another product called Video Ask, which is like a video version of that back and forth conversation, which is great for asynchronous when you want video. So Carrie, welcome to the show. If you do it right.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! A turkey is a turkey – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2022

I found, uh, a tech startup, a video commerce startup, and fast forward a, a couple of years, that startup kind of fizzle out. Someone like yourself and ask them about marketing advice and you'll get a video response. One to one, you book a short live call or ask your questions via text or video. Rune Hauge (12:58): Yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. You can see the whole video at the end of this post. Offer equity instead of cash.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. With the unlimited access to “how-to” videos and detailed instructions on the Internet, you shouldn’t need to hire experts for most things.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

The median figures for each strategy should give you an idea of which program to lean towards. The more brand equity you have, the easier it will be to get customers onside. Tools for customized videos: Idomoo ; SundaySky ; Vidyard. Typical deal sizes for Programmatic ABM are $50K to $250K. How is your company perceived?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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