crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 7, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Today Finland officially becomes first nation to make broadband a legal right – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week! image credit: Rosaura Ochoa.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland. The market is larger, less fragmented, the consumers are earlier adopters. Countries such as the UK , Russia and Finland are trying to replicate its ecosystem, to stimulate their local industries. Cultural Edge.

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Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

According to Forbes magazine, the real estate industry, for example, is using VR to save the housing market from the looming crisis: “Chinese startup Beike ( Ke.com ) has developed VR to let potential buyers and renters take virtual 3D tours of homes and apartments on the market. Virtual Helsinki. All about timing.

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Technical Review Cloud Forecast 164

Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. Even more conservative organizations that would never consider remote work before have been forced to do so.

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Hiring Bulgaria Italy Spain 98

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 11, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Peter Sandeen – Enjoy! Your marketing foundation is your value proposition—or it should be. But because you’ve built your marketing around the wrong idea (“no need to spend any time on planning”), you’ve created unrealistic expectations.

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Customer Finland Technical Review Technical Support 74

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2011

It gathered 120 hackers from Finland, Estonia and Latvia under the same roof and challenged them to go from zero to demo in 48 hours. There is a requisite for each team to have at least one developer (frontend or backend), a designer and a marketing person. Garage48 Helsinki , the largest hackathon in the Nordics, took place last week.

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Latvia Estonia Coder Finland 158

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Agile Software Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 99

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Gigs vary in categories like advertising, video and animation, graphics and design, programming and tech, music and audio, gifts, fun and bizarre, online marketing or writing and translation. An online marketplace offering 3.5 million Gigs®, or services, at just 5 bucks.

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Securities and Exchange Commission San Francisco Miami San Diego 263

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVUs original MVP took us six months to bring to market. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. It requires judgment to figure out, for any given context, what MVP makes sense. Yet in another situations we spent two weeks building a particular feature that absolutely nobody wanted.

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San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Whether they also lead to dramatically higher returns for investors is a question Im looking forward to studying. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. All three probably make attempts at world-of-mouth marketing - its just that for Viral, its life-or-death.

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San Francisco CPA CTO Hire SEM 167

Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

The CEO of Transformify, Lilia Stoyanov, said ‘’ An umbrella or contract staffing solution is perfectly addressing the needs of those businesses facing skilled labor shortages on their local markets. However, a typical umbrella solution doesn’t address the candidate sourcing needs. All visa, relocation, etc. About Generate.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

They’ve been thinking hard and smart about the lessons to be learned not only from Silicon Valley, but with only 16 million people, they are also looking for lessons from other small innovation clusters such as Israel, Singapore and Finland. As a result, societal pressures favor people who avoid risky ventures.

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Silicon Valley Chile South America Venture Capital 335

ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. Like user personas, funnels, or any other marketing heuristics we’ve come up with, they aren’t 100% true to reality. As such, no two journey maps are exactly the same.

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Customer Channel Design Retention 130

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

Technical Review 132

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. Probably if I had been an experienced marketer, I would have known that tiny volume to be insignificant, and I would have been embarrassed. But anyone who had done direct response marketing before would have known better.

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SEM San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 164

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

I was once asked by a top executive of a major software company why we were not selling more products in Finland. He did not seem to understand that Finland was not part of Scandinavia and that English is not too well understood by most people there (with the exception of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland).

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Saudi Arabia Brazil Finland Silicon Valley 225

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. A very interesting strategy.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

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." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types.

Customer Development 168

Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. Thus far the results are encouraging.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment SEC 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

The results of the Customer Development process may indicate that the assumptions about your product, your customers and your market are all wrong. They tell them to persist in their dream of building a great product and/or company, no matter what the odds are or what the market might be telling them – success is just around the corner.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. Lets return to our team thats failing to hit their targets.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Anyway, thanks to Steve and all of his students - it was a fun and thought-provoking experience. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. Take a look and let me know what you think.

San Francisco 158

San Francisco Management Software Review Product 158

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment Technical Review 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market.

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Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection.

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San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

how big is the market? what is the potential market size? whos on the marketing team? Most important slide: problem we are trying to solve Good product idea Key questions: what kinds of risk does this company need to mitigate (technology risk, market risk, team risk, funding risk)? can your team execute the growth plan?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 128

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants. I remember having this exact same "aha!"

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Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111