crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. Today I want to write briefly about a strategy we have used to very good effect when hiring new workers: outsource. Reduce, reduce, reduce. Expense, that is.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 16, 2009 What is Lean about the Lean Startup? The first step in a lean transformation is learning to tell the difference between value-added activities and waste. I was giving my first-ever webcast on the lean startup. This value is evident in Lean Startups.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 16, 2012

Andy left a software company he founded over ten years ago. He wore many hats over the years at his company, including programmer, head of hiring and firing, … Read the rest of this entry » He’s one of those guys who can do everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Don’t over-manage remote workers, but don’t expect them to manage your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? Here’s what they had to say about whether or not to outsource technology development: 1.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

It can be a small and nimble startup like Origin, or a company with 50 employees and hiring more every quarter. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. Alex understood he knew next to nothing about software development and engineering, so he searched for an engineer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2013

In the creative industries this is an everyday fact of business: overhead is constant, but revenue ebbs and flows throughout the year; some months there are so many clients and so much business that these service providers are forced to hire contractors or freelancers just to handle the extra workload. Photo: Arnold Reinhold, Wikipedia.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Venture capitalists look for a variety of intangibles when evaluating the entrepreneurs who they consider backing — vision, passion, integrity, confidence — but how many look for a background in software development? The software developer community is pretty tight-knit — word will get around if a workplace is awesome or awful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Don’t over-manage remote workers, but don’t expect them to manage your business.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Who can I hire later? ” She looked at bit puzzled, so I continued to explain… One of the virtues of using the Business Model Canvas as part of a Lean Startup is that it helps you frame each one of your nine critical hypotheses. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? And what can I outsource?”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 30, 2009 Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder Im very excited to announce a pair of events that will kick off a very busy fall speaking tour. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

Hire and train your own managers for internal and external work projects. You should never hire internal or external staff based solely on what they can do now. I’ll outsource software development, since I don’t understand it.” Don’t over-manage remote workers, but don’t expect them to manage your business.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 16, 2020

The expertise of administrators and senior-level developers suffices to handle routine technical tasks under the guidance of such company members as VP of Engineering, Team Lead, and Project Manager. The optimal solution is to hire a CTO in your area. A trade-off between a local CTO and a freelancer is hiring the CTO remotely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Agile software development. Customer development. you get the idea.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. That died with waterfall software development. Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Do so at your peril. How much will you pay?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. 7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. And let’s suppose you want to allocate just a little time for career development. Employee turnover becomes more common, so you’re permanently in hiring mode. Easy money, right? Double is nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. This workshop brings together leading thinkers from Lean Production and Lean software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO | Reid Hoffman - [link]. Quora - [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Good overview of lean software development – [link]. Some good advice about hiring employees – [link].

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success. So I thought, “I am good!”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy takes the Lean Startup methodology and applies it to problems sourced from the State Department. Each team continues to capture its work on a Mission Model Canvas – a modified version of the Business Model Canvas that’s at the heart of the Lean Startup methodology. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In this business environment, hiring a new CEO who had experience growing a company around a single technical innovation was a rational decision for venture investors. A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 31, 2013

7 Tips On How Your Small Business Or Startup Can Hire A Good Lawyer And Control Legal Costs – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet (with templates) – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. One should also determine if outsourcing to virtual assistants, subcontracting and hiring employees would truly work. Nuts and Bolts. Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work. Like me!

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

5 Essential Web Apps for the Lean Small Business – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Why Your Startup Shouldn’t Hire a Marketer from Microsoft – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW. How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – entm.ag/11mJBHi. How to hire – crowdspring.co/15u6LKW. More great examples in the Logo Design section below.

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