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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

All you have to do is use a few customers as guinea pigs for a prototype of your service or product. To successful create or grow any business you need a plan. In essence, a plan or design for the day to day running of your business is all that a business model actually is.

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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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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The Nature Conservancy and Techstars just announced a partnership to create the Techstars Sustainability Accelerator. Amy and I were part of the public announcement this week in Denver. Both organizations are important to us so it’s a joy to be involved in having them work together.

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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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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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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 26, 2015

I Was a Human Guinea Pig: 6 Self-Experimentations crowdspring.co/1B4GoAz. We love dreams. We love childhood memories. We love stop motion animation. Vera Van Wolferen ‘s How to Catch a Bird pulls it all together in a wonderfully creative and evocative way. Now wake up!

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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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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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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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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

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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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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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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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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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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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Social Media Design Small Business Media 119

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

6) You have 12 children, 8 dogs, 2 cats, 2 parrots, 2 parakeets 2 goats, assorted chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, guineas, pigeons, and 1 turkey. In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community.

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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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BeyondVC

MAY 13, 2004

” This is not unlike any other meeting with a CIO and just reminds me how hard it is for a startup to get its first, high-profile, referenceable customer as no one wants to be a guinea pig. This month seems to be my month for CIO meetings. Part of a VC’s job besides helping management with strategy and hiring people is to help with customer introductions and strategic partnerships. In this tough market, my partners and I have been doing our best to help along these fronts.

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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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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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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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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2017

I wanted to make myself the guinea pig. Transcript of How to Create Ridiculously Good Content written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Sanebox.

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