Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

When I think, of a “disruptor,” the first name that comes to mind is Elon Musk. One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. Cryptocurrency is going to really disrupt banking by taking over one of its essential services, namely, secured payments.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

Back in March of 2015, I launched a Kickstarter campaign with these words: “Hi, my name is Eric Ries. I’m an entrepreneur and the author of The Lean Startup. Since writing The Lean Startup, I’ve traveled around the world, helping companies of every size adopt the Lean Startup approach.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. Here’s how: Order of Battle.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

The name is self-explanatory—you offer an app for free and charge for in-app purchases and add-ons to provide users with a better experience or bring extra value. It offers a freemium of their social network to everyone, has a premium plan as well as a free trial of this plan, plus it also monetizes on the ads.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. Companies with a high LTV have a strong brand image , earn word-of-mouth and organic referrals, and enjoy “search monopolies”—conversions by brand name search.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

So, for example, if you’re reading your favorite newspaper and see an interesting article you’d like to share with someone – or across a social network – you just need to scan the paper with the app and it will launch the digital version for sharing. Consider it as a bit like Shazam for print.

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View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

Jesse recently sat down with NextView (I assume he was sitting anyway — we spoke on the phone) to talk seed-stage company branding, building a startup identity, and some of the most common mistakes founders make when establishing a name for their companies. You can absolutely launch lean and scrappy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

I enjoy finding and using these new tools and I’ve noticed a trend in these tools over the last year or so, they’ve become more social. In other words, they seem to be taking clues from social networks and the pattern of sharing, liking and commenting they have fostered to create social collaboration as a central theme.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 26, 2013

Before inbound marketers built libraries of educational content to lean on in their inbound marketing efforts, most outbound approaches simply shouted buy, buy, buy – and that’s the part that turned everyone off. As marketers and the customers they aim to attract fully embraced inbound marketing, outbound marketing became more effective.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

While you could maintain an active presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ or other social networks, most small businesses will benefit from pulling much of their traffic to their own website – where they have full control over the content and look and feel of the site. You’ll also need to find a host.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

While you could maintain an active presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+ or other social networks, most small businesses will benefit from pulling much of their traffic to their own website – where they have full control over the content and look and feel of the site. You’ll also need to find a host.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] 200+ Startup Questions Distilled Down To Five | Startup Lean. [.] Ideas are worthless!!!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Thats not the goal of a lean startup. Your writing is certainly not lean. I like this term.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Over 60% of small business owners are using social media to attract new customers, over 75% of these companies have Facebook pages;,and almost half of small businesses are successfully acquiring new customers through online social networks! Brand names matter (as do eyeballs).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

If necessary, consider doing this under a different brand name than the one you are wedded to using. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Who doesnt want to see their name in print? Now that were beginning our first marketing, the key partners we need have heard our name long enough to trust us. Launching is about creating circles within circles (groups of people that connect) and social networking, word of mouth, and real-world advertising are all contributing factors.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is a place to grow as an entrepreneur by learning new skills, meeting other entrepreneurs, and getting feedback from local thought leaders—just to name a few. 3) Lean Startup Machine - A three-day workshop that teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This means: Social networking and Community sites that want to unify chat, forums, polls, videos, blogs, etc. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. You could have named it “User Experience Debt&#. You can also find more essays here.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Similarly, an e-commerce retailer believes they need the domain name, shopping cart solution, and inventory to start their business. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -. Fabulis.com was initially intended to to be a social network for gay men. Your Name *. But is this really step one?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. This can even vary by category, as people apply different criteria to games vs. utilities vs. social networking apps. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. And what distinguishes a good app? I cant really tell.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But most start-ups in Silicon Beach are young and lean and cant afford to provide Silicon Valley-like perks as trumpeted by Google, such as free food, pool tables and massages. "If Nick Smoot just leased offices in Venice for his social-networking app for businesses, Here On Biz, based on all the activity in the area. "I

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Lean Domain Search – suggests all available.coms with a given keyword somewhere in the name. f6s – listing of all accelerator programs (and lots of other info) and a social network for startups and angels. AngelList – social network and funding platform for startups and angels.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. On Describing His Current Work without Naming His Fund/Investments. What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 24, 2016

Correlative metrics can be known by other names: leading indicators, predictive metrics, correlations, aha moments , wow moments, common conversion activities, etc. As Ben Yoskovitz , co-author of Lean Analytics , wrote : Ben Yoskovitz : “Finding a correlation between two metrics is a good thing. Correlation vs Causation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. What Startups Can Learn From Watching “The Social Network” – [link]. What is holding back social media investment? . You Name It: The Biggest [Blanks] in the World! Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts – [link]. Beware the Nile perch – [link].

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2014

…it seems that a higher ROI may lean in the favor of word-of-mouth advertising. Notice that the testimonials don’t even include names or a source and aren’t over the top by any means. Gigya.com (Review plugin that uses social network login vs standard login. Very useful for practice!”. Simple enough, right?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Evolution of Big-Name Logos – [link]. How To Name Your Company – [link]. 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. micah says not for all – [link].

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. It doesn’t mean that he should not look up his charts, excel sheets and you-name-it. While all of those offers have been very kind and very flattering, some have tended towards the bizarre.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision. P.S. Will add Paul’s last name to the post. Name (required). If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler Let us know.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

Some fun examples are, of the big names out there, look at Amazon, for instance, which started out as a book seller way back when. Now it’s in the world domination category. It owns Whole Foods, and it’s probably delivering something via drone to your door right now. I mean how do you come to that? Colleen DeBaise: I know.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name. This article is the second in a three-part series about naming your startup; on Wednesday, we discussed why your startup’s name matters , and on Friday, we’ll discuss testing and buying domains. But how do you actually create a name? Like Tweet. Like Tweet.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? and if 40%+ answer “Very disappointed” to the “How would you feel if you could no longer use [Name] App?” – then your there. First Name.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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