YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2013

In the US, about 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Enter “ The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses “, a New York Times bestseller by founder of IMVU (creator of 3D avatars) Eric Ries.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills). Custom development. This means hiring/contracting a freelance web developer or an agency to design and develop your site from start to finish.

Entrepreneur 107

Entrepreneur Technical Review Hosting SEO 107

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Many entrepreneurs use the phrase “It’s not personal; it’s business” to justify keeping their customers at arm’s length. But the truth is, especially if you’re at the head of a small business, every customer interaction is personal. If that makes you uncomfortable, relax. Risk stepping out from behind technology.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

This form of planning condensed the business model onto one page and is most useful for high-growth, technically focused startups (think Silicon Valley). For example, many businesses have a difficult time arriving at their key value proposition without first thoroughly understanding the customer problem. Why or why not?

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Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

If winning $5-10K is your goal, you’re not a scalable startup, just a small business. steve Gabrielle , on May 30, 2010 at 9:16 pm Said: Jacek said: “I think the problem here isn’t with Business Plan Competitions, but with the way they are organized. &# You are most probably right.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses.

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Silicon Valley Lean Utah Customer Development 313

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2013

by Joseph and JoAnn Callaway, authors of “ Clients First “ So, you’re building a small business from the ground up, with only the proverbial wing and prayer to keep you aloft. Anything that takes your focus off the customer puts your fledgling business in harm’s way. What are you most intensely focused on?

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Small Business Reputation Customer Employee 185

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Customer Development Labs recently shared a great experiment on using mTurk to interview 100 customers in 4 hours for less than $200. While it usually requires permission from the brand, logos instill a sense of security to users. Which platform is most unlikely to build a competing app and try to replace yours?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. Entrepreneurship often describes a small business whose owner starts up a company i.e. a plumbing supply store, a restaurant, a consulting firm. of all businesses. Make no little plans.

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Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 303

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2013

So, you’re building a small business from the ground up, with only the proverbial wing and prayer to keep you aloft. Anything that takes your focus off the customer puts your fledgling business in harm’s way. first so that your small business can grow and prosper: 1. What are you most intensely focused on?

Small Business 185

Small Business Reputation Customer Cofounder 185

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2014

The Top Google Analytics Reports for Assessing Mobile Activity written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. This functionality requires custom development to set up, which you can read more about here. Google Mobile Search Engines Small Business Mark Hansen'

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Analytics Mobile Channel Conversion 77

Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. There are many assumptions that can get in the way of starting and running a business. It’s the ultimate startup guide if you’re looking for systematic business growth and guidance on what not to do. B y Michael E. B y Cindy Alvarez.

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Startup Venture Capital Angel Investor Lean 80

Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm.

Silicon Valley 320

Silicon Valley Oregon Lean Angel Investor 320

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

If customers stop paying their monthly subscription they don’t just lose access to the Adobe Creative Suite software (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) The consequence of discarding low margin customers and optimizing revenue and margin in the short-term, Adobe risks enabling future competitors. Customer Development Marketing Tesla'

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 332

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

Venture Capital 335

Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 335

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. Clearshore is a “matchmaker&# that helps small businesses get their fair share of the $60-billion US government budget for R&D and innovation.

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Silicon Valley California Vertical Customer Development 218

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The summit opened with a panel of Investors sharing their insights of what the funding environment for entrepreneurs, non-profits and small businesses will look like as the economy recovers. Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You can click here to read some useful tips on small business online marketing. An app can not only offer an easy platform for people to make mobile purchases, but it can also ensure that customers are constantly reminded of your business every time they open their phone (which could lead to an increase in return customers). .

Marketing 246

Marketing Social Media PPC SEO 246

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

The other areas, which are not necessarily things that matter as much to me but I do believe help the ecosystem: * reform in contract awarding -- right now the government doesn't meet its quota (22% or something like that) for small business work.and almost everything goes to the same group of prime contractors.

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DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2020

Mango Lango – Mobile app that allows small businesses to reopen safely. Remote Daily – Simplified employee feedback for small businesses. MatchBook – Hiring platform structured similarly to dating apps. MemLove – Helping people grieve for lost loved ones. MUSTA – Telemedicine platform for patients in the Philippines.

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Peru Philippines Mobile Global 300

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 210

Steve Blank

MAY 10, 2017

5:30 Pricing (Customer Validation, Sales, Pricing). 8:30 Customer Discovery (What is the Lean Stack). 12:37 Small Businesses vs. Scalable Startups (Should I take Risk Capital). 21:25 How Do You Find Out What Customers Really Want? Customer Discovery, Pivots) Filed under: Customer Development.

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Lean Customer Development Developer Video 160

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Thanks to a combination of these traits we were able to secure a first round of six-figure VC funding, which gave us a jump-start to start developing our sales and marketing channels.”. Additional resources to help you finance your business: How to Get Your Business Funded. 35 Great Ways to Fund a Small Business.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2011

They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. And they’ll do this using the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. They may decide to license their intellectual property based on their research.

Engineer 287

Engineer Silicon Valley United States Intellectual Property 287

Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

They’re growing the number of accounts and the deal size, but it feels like we’re incrementally growing a small business, not heading for exponential growth. She had something rare – a services company that provided real value with products that early customers loved. Lessons Learned.

New York 359

New York Miami Silicon Valley Sales 359

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

ConversionXL

JULY 1, 2014

Small business looking to upgrade their current site (Small-Biz). The post Everything You Need To Know About Designing Valuable Customer Surveys appeared first on ConversionXL. Professional web designers purchasing themes for clients website (Designer).

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Customer Design Software Review Lead Generation 76

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company. None of them were entrepreneurs or owned a small business. And that wasn’t that long ago either!)

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Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

Even large multi-national companies talk to their trusted customers about new ideas to get validation and or ideas for product development. Small businesses often times are not aware of their network and the people they can access to get important feedback just by asking. Customer Development.

Stealth 198

Stealth Partner Developer Networking 198

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. If you don’t like podcasts, this self-paced video course by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is for you. In fact, there’s even a trailer that will help you decide whether or not to get started!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

The brand was always so important to us, but just again, by the nature of being a small bootstrap company even though we made it to eight figures in the last couple years, you know how it is when you’re running a small business you choose your priorities and you focus. Effectively you’re trying to create a person.

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Community SEO Technical Review Audience 61

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly.

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In fact, by the start of class they had ~$750K in revenue for 2011 – not quite Facebook but a nice small business. The Lean LaunchPad class works for existing businesses as well as new startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching'

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North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

5 Social Media Growth Hacks for Small Businesses by Forbes. On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. .’ Conducted Customer Development.

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