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.

Marketing 162

Marketing Charlotte Naming Design 162

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 131

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 131

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Jantsch: So you in the Value Builder System kind of lean on these drivers of salability kind of the things that people use to determine or demonstrate that a company has value. So that’s just another one of the benefits of being part of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network. You get to hear from smart guys like John.

Entrepreneur 68

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 68

Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

So I was astonished how ready and eager students were for a class that combines the toughest problems in national security, with learning Lean Innovation methods. We had more applicants (70+) for the 32 seats in this class than we usually get in our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. Result: Hell yes.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Southern California San Diego Lean 120

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Errol Arkilic was the lead program director for the National Science Foundation I-Corps , which uses my Lean LaunchPad curriculum to teach scientists and engineers how to take their technology out of the lab and into the marketplace. The Lean LaunchPad class. But nothing else like [The Lean LaunchPad class] was being taught. .

Government 120

Government Channel Southern California Lean 120

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Other universities doing classified ELINT and Electronic Warfare work attended including University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology and Cornell. Terman was the ultimate networking machine for Stanford and its military contracts. By early 1950’s Stanford started holding a two day meeting for contractors and the military.

Silicon Valley 158

Silicon Valley RSS California Government 158

Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Gratitude Outgoing Chief Operating Officer Georgia Thomsen Georgia Thomsen will be moving on from the Chief Operating Officer position that she has held for the past four years. Georgia joined as our 8th employee and now our team is almost 10 times that size?—?mostly Georgia let me be crazy and helped everyone else stay sane.

Georgia 48

Georgia Houston Dallas Texas 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it. It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. That was not a crisp delineation.

South Korea 114

South Korea Silicon Valley Sweden Italy 114