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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

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). Imagine your prototyping is over, and you're building a production system. Think of the money!

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Delicious Closing Leaves a Bad Taste in My Mouth

This is going to be BIG.

We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. wants to talk to me about it, I’d at least entertain the conversation around getting an entrepreneur in there to start with their userbase and a running product start—or combine it with some similar opportunities we’re seeing in the space.

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If you build it, they won't come, unless.

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We're putting a 'Retweet' button inside the product to encourage viral growth.". For example, here's what the founder's ( Josh Baer ) availability looks like: Instead of trading emails with lists of available time-slots, Josh just sends the link to this page and the other person uses the product to schedule a meeting.

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Beta Testing At Spiceworks: A Surprising Place To Find Qualified Guinea Pigs

ReadWriteStart

It can be incredibly difficult to find good test subjects with enough of a knowledge base to give you intelligent feedback on these kinds of sophisticated products. How the heck do you beta test a product like that ? Eat your own dogfood: use and test your own product. Where To Find Qualified Beta Testers? Beta Test Tips.

Guinea 60
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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units.

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Here’s How Dropshipping Can Be Turned Into A Successful Venture

YoungUpstarts

It’s great for testing out new product ideas in a short period of time. You can easily include a new product category for a period to test and see if it proves to be profitable. Subsequently, you can stock up on the products in your warehouse if you find that there is demand for the product.

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Twitter Link Roundup #275 – Fascinating Stuff for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Strategies to Build a Fun Work Culture That’s Also Productive crowdspring.co/1F6S299. I Was a Human Guinea Pig: 6 Self-Experimentations crowdspring.co/1B4GoAz. The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur bit.ly/1GNvluK. Forget Time Management; Focus on Stress Management crowdspring.co/1GxqwZu. crowdspring.co/1GHvoJK.