Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

You must have a passion for the problem and a love for building great products. Go lean with your planning. A startup is about execution and speed, so you need to start lean. You need your minimum viable product (MVP), you need to show how you’re better than competitors , you need good leadership skills, and you need traction.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. Plenty of sales fall through due to issues beyond the salesperson’s control, and those issues are often a result of the company’s product or service. Modern consumers prefer to do most product research on their own.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He also shared that, initially, he was leaning toward building an experience management solution in-house, and that it was only at the insistence of the firm’s CMO that he relented and engaged our firm. There are two significant paradigm shifts in software development which have altered the equation.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. One large source of waste in development is “double-checking.&#

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. Once the order is fulfilled and paid for, the funds can be paid back. ? Research and development. Gone are the days where you can get funded based on an idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. 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. I have seen really great product people espouse the death of the business plan. Do so at your peril.

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Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Product design at GitHub [link]. Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. Why would people “save&# ads to review later? Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. CPC & conversion rates are abysmal.

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Footer Designs For Your Inspiration – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The reason the media call the Friday after Thanksgiving Black Friday is that many businesses do not reach their break-even point for the whole year until that day, due to the tremendous volume of sales. Increasing productivity will lower your costs of goods. Offer service or product bundles to convince customers to spend more money.

Software Review 85

Software Review Salary Advertising Sales 85

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail?

Social Media 107

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The Myth of Venture Capital | Re/code by Jon Oringer – crowdspring.co/1tNFeV7. Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Why Introverts Make Great Leaders – crowdspring.co/1yhmaS5.

Social Media 94

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Being Kind To Your Prospective Customers Is Good Business – (Lean Business: Do Unto Others) – [link]. Four Ways to Market Like a Startup | Brian Gregg and Vivian Weng-Harvard Business Review – [link]. “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” Is that enough? |

Social Media 92

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Look in the OTHER section below for an excellent review of the movie with a superb discussion of why the sequel missed an opportunity to do what the original Tron movie did – introduce innovative ideas about technology. 5 Essential Web Apps for the Lean Small Business – [link]. Product Success and Innovation – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 19, 2011

Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Setting Goals – [link]. Traveling lean: tips for small businesses and entrepreneurs – [link]. 45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers – [link].

Social Media 97

Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. 14 Great Product Packaging Designs - [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. This is a customer development problem. Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process.

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Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort – [link]. 7 tactics lean startups need to build great products | Gigaom – [link]. Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort – [link]. Deciding if a product feature is worth the effort – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 107

Social Media Small Business Design Cofounder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve made some cool additions to our pre-conference webcast lineup , including two conversations with founding figures for methods that underlie Lean Startup. This Thursday’s webcast will get to the heart of how product groups work—and how they can work better.

Product Development 167

Product Development Software Review Technical Review Developer 167

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups – [link].

Social Media 90

Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

The interesting part is when you get a couple months into your product cycle. You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design.

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Technical Review Design Las Vegas Product 47

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

Glaser-Harvard Business Review – [link]. 10 Things Sheryl Sandberg Gets Exactly Right In ‘Lean In’ | Forbes – [link]. Creative product designs #9 | Designskilz – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link]. Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers–It Ensures Productivity – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

SaaS products aren’t viral – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Technology Review - [link]. The Product is the Byproduct – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Technology Review - [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2011

Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup – [link]. Good post by @micah with tips for entrepreneurs demoing a product/service to investors – [link]. image credit: EpicV27. The Best 10 Solutions For Email Marketing – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. Over the years marketers have found that using numbers to compare yourself to other products works well.

Silicon Valley 127

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 127

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

It’s not easy being lean – [link]. Twitter Blindsided Ecosystem Leader Twitpic With Photo Product – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. .&# -Jeff Bezos [link]. The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get – [link].

Social Media 96

Social Media Small Business Design Media 96

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 24, 2011

Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link].

Social Media 91

Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. But I also leaned that is actually ok. Thanks to Mike Staines, HUB ! #8-

Entrepreneur 134

Entrepreneur B2B Database Technical Review 134

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Innovative Product Design #3 – [link]. Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Costa Rica Small Business Design 92

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Almost certainly accounting is a support service and should be outsourced (unless, perhaps, you’re selling accounting software and you need to eat your own dogfood!). Start a blog.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Can minimal design work for product packaging? Must Read Links for Web Designers and Developers – Volume 1 – [link]. 4 Reasons Why Designers and Developers Should Learn to Write – [link]. Can minimal design work for product packaging?

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself.

Software Review 85

Software Review Software Database New York City 85

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". Like what??

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Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Bolivia 325

Software By Rob

OCTOBER 14, 2010

And after talking about this subject at length, I found myself again evangelizing it last week at the Business of Software conference. So the intention of this post is to lay out the key details of why you should start marketing your startup (or product, or book, or anything else you will launch) months before launch day.

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