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Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Meditate on this: Hundreds of people ready to quit their day jobs, burn up savings, risk personal reputation, toil 70 hours per week, absorb as much stress as having a baby (believe me, I've done both). You repeat these mantras at Lean Startup Meetings but you're not doing it.? I say "find ten people who say they'll buy."

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Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels

crowdSPRING Blog

The Lean Startup movement provides a wonderful template, and Ross wrote a great post in which he discussed how managers can use these principles in their own marketing campaigns. Applications such as Foursquare , Yelp , and Urbanspoon allow businesses to build awareness and reputation online. Photo: Howard Lake.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. How to Proactively Protect Your Online Reputation - Startup Professionals Musings , June 12, 2010 These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Your employees can’t also be your friends.

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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It was the little precambrian warm-blooded agile (oh sorry, now we're saying "lean") rodents who adapted by getting "outside the nest" to discover how to eat cockroaches, because we all know that cockroaches are the one form of life that can survive anything. Don't fear the dinosaur, fear the quivering warm-blooded tree-shrew.

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Lean In Or Get Out: 11 Tips For Using Your Expertise To Create A Wickedly Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

So it makes sense, that as Sheryl Sandberg points out in the much talked about book, “ Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead “, “many women are reluctant to make a focused effort to lead in the workplace” My advice? I think the message behind ” Lean In ” is good. Don’t get me wrong.

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

The difference between the two ways of thinking is why successful entrepreneurs have the reputation for being relentless. So much so, I took a Customer Development approach to my startup, which I wrote up as a Case Study for the Google Group Lean Startup Circle. To an outsider it looks like they’re annoyingly persistent.