Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But beyond the obvious, its also important to know where customers go to get answers to pressing questions. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 8, 2015

Best Knowledge Base WordPress Themes for Customer Support, FAQs and Wiki bit.ly/1P70bAl. Four blogs every beginner should start following right now • Inspired Magazine bit.ly/1PYBTed. Some Common Legal Misunderstandings About Image Usage bit.ly/1beQouz. Mistakes many make when looking at website statistics • Inspired Magazine bit.ly/1GFPyT0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. I think its wasteful. Instead, lets focus on building companies that matter , on creating real value for customers, and learning. In time, success will come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. So you decide to try to reposition around a different value proposition, one that more closely matches what your product is best at.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Conduct constant focus groups and usability tests.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 3, 2015

How to Create a Wiki Knowledge Base using WordPress crowdspring.co/1BJ3KVP. Create a Simple CRM in WordPress: Advanced Custom Fields – Tuts+ Code Tutorial crowdspring.co/1BnSr5n. Fit for Google Search: Using Rich Snippets in WordPress | NOUPE crowdspring.co/1Hs25bP. TOP Artsy Tools Plus 31 Places to Find FREE Stock Photos crowdspring.co/18TlQxH.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Very helpful and worth taking time to go through most of them. Thanks for a Great Post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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