crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. image credit: EpicV27.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. But I think in a lean startup, the development methodology is too important to be considered "just management." I dont think so.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link].

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

There’s nothing more wasteful than having an Innovation Outpost reporting on disruption heading for the company’s core business (autonomous vehicles, machine learning, Virtual Reality, Cloud, Internet of Things, et al.) Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? when no one at headquarters wants to listen.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Leadership Rule No. Egg Logos Showcase – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Balloon-powered internet from Google.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2013

Last year, we began training our customer service people specifically to work remote – we figured as long as they had a good internet connection and a headset, they had all the tools necessary to do their job. Made a poor tradeoff in the service of a lean business methodology? Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Good overview of lean software development – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Last year, I traveled to dozens of cities talking about lean startups and meeting people interested in entrepreneurship. This is a good thing. (I

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Jack Dorsey: Leadership Secrets Of Twitter And Square | Forbes – [link]. Show them WHY.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What Hasn’t Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. Dave McClure – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Nice guys finish last when it comes to leadership – [link]. Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares – [link]. Very shady, if true.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. – [link].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. For established companies, a rebranding effort could involve discovering elements like the values your customers live by and what your leadership team believes in. But what if your true mission is to “reduce the amount of boring content on the internet”?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , carry on reading.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

People still spend money in the lean times — in fact they are much more likely to spend money on small luxury items when they are holding off on big purchases. Juan Pablo Segura founded Babyscripts in 2014 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices would transform the delivery of pregnancy care.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We have formalized the entrepreneurial approach into frameworks like “lean start-up” or “design thinking” with the goal of implementing it beyond start-ups. Look no further than GE, which soon after broadly injecting “lean start-up” approaches was quickly humbled into a shadow of its former self. Conclusion.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Deloitte’s Shift Index , which tracks economic competitiveness, has shown a long-run decline in a firm’s ability to retain market leadership. This shift occurred due to the rapid pace of innovation with the onset of the Internet, the proliferation of information and the empowerment of consumers with a mind-numbing number of choices.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

As the manager of an internet business, our approach has always been “light-touch” and our assumption has always been biased towards “self-serve.” Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Focus on the customer. 10 New Years Resolutions For Small Businesses and Startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the bedrock practices of any lean startup , and so its a common piece of advice I give out. Without requiring a lot of meetings, it changes the perspective of the team (and its leadership) from fire-fighting to prevention. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

From Day One we viewed crowdSPRING as the ultimate light-touch, self-serve, highly scalable internet business. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups. Force them to raise their hand. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: Customer Service Marketing Manifesto.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

» 25 Responses Mark Soper , on November 30, 2009 at 6:55 am Said: Steve, I’m working on a consumer internet product concept at the customer discovery phase. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Then WHAT it IS? Order Here.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. consumer Internet) might have a really, really high bar of achievement for funding. After three of these slides, smart VC’s will recognize that by iterating on your assumptions you have dramatically reduced risk– on your nickel, not theirs.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Welcome to the Internet bubble.) EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Here was a competitor who had appropriated our idea and gotten funded.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. But, seeing it articulated so well and establishing a common vocabularly for us to talk about it is immensely valuable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. Google Serves 25 Percent of North American Internet Traffic – [link]. Yes — GigaOM – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

But the main reason this happened in my mind was that the access to internet really made a big change in my life, because even when you're in the place of lowest access to education having access to other people online, mathematic problems, it allowed me to self-study. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place. EB : Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. Here in Tampa, our biggest challenge is convincing the regions technology "leadership" that grassroots economic development is a good thing. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer. Donald Trump does not.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 14, 2016

We are proud that American innovation is the envy of the world, a source of widely-shared prosperity, and a hallmark of our global leadership. We also believe in the free and open exchange of ideas, including over the Internet, as a seed from which innovation springs. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer. Donald Trump does not.

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