Inc Startups

MARCH 8, 2012

Serious about getting more feedback into your organization? Start by finding out how you're doing. Part 2 of 2. In the recent column How're We Doing? No, Really , I mentioned an executive who asked "How do I integrate effective, casual, and simply more feedback into the daily rhythm of my organization?” ” Let’s assume you want more feedback for all the right reasons – you’re looking to continuously learn, and to help you organization do the same.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Did you know that she loves rodents – rats, mice, capybara, guinea pigs, pika, and groundhogs. I asked Amy to send me a picture of my inner animal spirit. She won’t let me share her’s, but that’s me on the left. I’ve always felt like a bear. A big, cuddly, nice, soft bear. Mellow. I like to sleep. I like to eat. I wander around, a little curiously larger than comfortable in my slightly oversized body. I’m really f **g ferocious when I’m mad.

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Inc Startups

MARCH 30, 2016

Experimenting is a part of life that A.J. Jacobs takes to the extreme

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Be your own guinea pig. Some business ideas require a human guinea pig or person willing to volunteer to use the product or perform the service. So you have a great idea for a business, right? This is the one that will change everything, and put you on the map.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 1, 2014

I became my own guinea pig for Profit First. The formula for profitability has been established for ages. Every business owner, CEO, freelancer and entrepreneur knows it.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

We were guinea pigs then as the second class! Emily LaFave Olson w Chef Thomas McNaughton of Flour & Water. I can’t recall how I originally met Emily but I’m going to chalk it up to the “overlapping friend circles” thing.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2014

It’s often the case that the illegitimate individuals behind the fake likes and followers are professional hackers who use unsuspecting members of the public as their guinea pigs, without them even knowing a thing about it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? For the past three months, we’ve run an experiment in teaching entrepreneurship. In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad.

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Inc Startups

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When restaurants open, they "fake open" first by holding free invite-only dinners to work out the kinkswith diners who know they''re going to be guinea pigs. What oDesk''s VP learned about building a business in the backwoods of Mississippi.

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Here’s my Top 10, which I suppose would do for business owners who don’t realize how essential it is to track the Papua, New Guinea, commodities exchange and keep up to date on the latest mining information out of Mongolia.*

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Inc Startups

JUNE 10, 2013

A team of researchers out of Loughborough University in the UK used a set of 30 government employees as guinea pigs to determine the physical as well as psychological effects of email. It''s not just you and it''s not just in your head.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

Or, consider offering a subscription service built around a more unusual pet, like this “pocket pet” subscription box for guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, and other small pets!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 16, 2017

John Chen is most commonly referred to as the Human Guinea Pig in Content Marketing. How to Use LinkedIn Groups to Generate Quality Leads Continuously written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Ben Casnocha: The Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2016

To ensure that the pigs can’t run away, farmers in northern New Guinea slice off a chunk of each pig’s nose. In another area of New Guinea, it has been customary to gouge out pigs’ eyes, so that they cannot even see.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 23, 2017

So I started urging them and now anyone who will listen to choose a customer about once a quarter and make them a customer experience guinea pig of sorts. Why Customer Experience Is the Key to an Amazing Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing.

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Inc Startups

JULY 3, 2013

Then he decided to become his own guinea pig, ingesting solely this powder concoction composed largely of carbs, amino acids, fiber, and vitamins. "I This 24-year-old founder thinks humans can live healthier by just not eating.

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Inc Startups

JANUARY 17, 2014

RCM will first test Mint Chip using its 200 employees as guinea pigs, and the closed environment of its cafeteria as the playpen later in January. The Royal Canadian Mint is testing its own crypto-currency later this month--marking a big stride toward legitimizing digital currencies.

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Inc Startups

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The small study used 53 Canadian college students as guinea pigs to test the knock-on effects on our psychology of thinking of time and money as interchangeable.

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The bars are made from organic beans sourced from Madagascar, Belize, Papua New Guinea, and the Dominican Republic and shipped to the U.S. Here is a round up of Inc.''s s favorite entrepreneur-made products for 2013.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2016

of endlessly trying different brands of lashes and adhesive (which hurt my business profits) and unfortunately my clients were the Guinea pigs who were getting inconsistent results because of it (which hurt business profits even more!). Share Each business has a story.

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Inc Startups

JUNE 25, 2012

The prize for winning was 12 guineas—about $1,200 today. A sports event steeped in tradition has gone 2.0. Here's a look at the pioneers turning Wimbledon high tech.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

During beta-testing they would be guinea pigs. This is Part 5 of the 5-part series: 5 lessons from 150 startup pitches. Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We thank Duncan MacDonald-Korth , Captain, University of Oregon Men’s Tennis Team, and Matt Fairbank , Harvard ’12, for their help researching this post, and our office residents for being guinea pigs in our experiment.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Have India’s poor become human guinea pigs? 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.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

I’m always the guinea pig for my readers.”. Obsidian Launch announced the June 20, 2016 release of Surge , a new business strategy book from the author of Profit First , Mike Michalowicz.

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Inc Startups

JULY 22, 2013

That triptych of talents--entrepreneurialism, programming knowlege, and musicianship--made him a perfect guinea pig for 10x. Booking shows for artists such as John Mayer was big business--last decade. This agency has found what could be a new path to a bright future. Before Will.I.Am

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Inc Startups

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

THE GUINEA PIG: My wedding photography business needs some social media help.'> So I'm going to use my wedding photography business as the guinea pig and try every trick out there. I'm the world's worst social media marketer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Sounds like a no-brainer, but I’d like to try and convince you that it’s not. All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. But all things are never equal.

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Inc Startups

APRIL 30, 2012

The Bracy brothers, who are fraternal twins, grew up with missionary parents in Papua New Guinea and taught themselves programming after moving to Vermont at age 13. How Jason Freedman and 42Floors cooked up a killer business idea that could turn commercial real estate on its head.

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ArcticStartup

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The service was tested last spring at a staff restaurant in Helsinki, Finland, and the well fed guinea pigs have provided the designers with positive feedback. Technology has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our live, but the salad buffet?

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 28, 2011

If you don’t have either performance data or best practices, then you need to either charge based on performance (which nobody will be happy about, including you) or spend a while as your own guinea pig running a [set of] user-facing campaign[s]. This is a long and specific post, but enough startups rely on UGC (user-generated content) to some degree that I wanted to put a few thoughts down. Customising, voting, and sharing are not use-cases.

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Code as Craft

OCTOBER 11, 2011

try has also been our guinea pig for integrating Jenkins and Deployinator. At Etsy, we deploy often, from head, and everything that is committed is to trunk and must be ready for production immediately. This makes it very important to test your code before committing; otherwise, you will be holding up everyone else from committing and deploying since trunk always needs to be clean.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time.

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START-UP BUSINESS TALK

JUNE 9, 2010

Months ago when I realized just how skeptical this person was about business planning, I asked them to volunteer and be my "guinea pig" and I would help them develop a mini-plan for their new program. I had an interesting conversation with someone today about business planning. My suggestion was, "be open to this, watch and see what happens." Today, we went over our "experiment."

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

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Inc Startups

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

billion, it seems most marijuana industry insiders are reluctant to be the guinea pigs in a market that's not only new to consumers, but still very much illegal on a federal level. Recreational marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2011

By May of 2010 they came from 219 countries and spoke 199 languages; according to Google Analytics, there are only 5 countries from which we have not had a single visit: Chad, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Guinea, and The Central African Republic.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 17, 2010

We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. This was the first time I had ever heard about del.icio.us (I still like to use the old naming convention)… note the date.

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500 Hats

MAY 8, 2008

Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III.

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 7, 2011

They were the human guinea pigs who tested the prototype. Entrepreneurship, for all its challenges, can bestow on families unexpected benefits beyond the obvious financial ones. Although my husband, Gary, is CEO of Stonyfield Farm, his name doesn't appear in the company's phone directory.

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