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Twitter Link Roundup #220 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

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These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The image above is a piece of cycling awareness street art created by Peter Drew , an artist based in Adelaide, Australia. A 3-Day Weekend…Every Weekend? 1ms7eY0.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Steve Blank has been a mentor to me for several years.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? For now, Id like to ask a favor. May 14, 2009 4:53 AM James Spittal said.

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Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. That is customer development.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

No university has said, “We should design the institution to have a bigger impact using academic work and join up with outside entities and organizations and partners to do that.” The importance of actually doing good instructional design, was pointed out as is time consuming and significant work to do up front.

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