crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 27, 2013

We write often about ways small business can reduce expense, increase productivity, and operate more efficiently through a lean approach to marketing, technology, and operations. When we hear that word, we typically envision massive call centers or bucket shops filled with developers writing code half-way across the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2017

Subscription business brings recurring revenue. This allows you to enjoy a constant source of incoming revenue, as long as you’re keeping the subscribers satisfied (that is of course essential). Through customer acquisition, you’ll work to grow the revenue and then, use that revenue to cover operational costs.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. A growing number of startups, however, are quietly disproving this assumption.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool – [link]. Facebook redesign driven by ad revenue, says @benkunz(I agree) – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool – [link]. 2) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2011

Lean startups: Office space for the 21st Century (what to consider when leasing office space) – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. agency revenues – [link]. Traditional?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2013

Empower Your Small Business – NEW edition: marketing, lean business, paid search, #1 mistake – [link]. Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! Lean Business: Freelancers for ALL My Friends! Revenue Traction Doesn’t Mean Product Market Fit – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A company developing software would have to buy computers and license software from other companies and hire the staff to run and maintain it. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. Finally the board would fire the VP of sales.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. Hulu On Track To Generate $500 Million In Revenue This Year – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Product design at GitHub [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2013

Empower Your Small Business: trust & loyalty, marketing insight, lean business – [link]. Social Ad Revenue To Grow 18.6% Internet Ad Revenues Again Hit Record-Breaking Double-Digit Annual Growth, Reaching Nearly $37 Billion – [link]. Small Business and Startups: Cultivate Trust and Nurture Loyalty – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. Small Business and Startups: The True “Lean” Movement – [link]. desperation for software talent has moved even small and midsize tech companies to make acqui-hires.” – [link]. 12 Must Watch TED Talks for Entrepreneurs – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. Lean Business: Lessons from A-Rod – [link]. How These 7 Companies Increased Revenue by an Average of 425% | KISSmetrics – [link]. Do This | Entrepreneur – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

Software Developer: From “App developer” to “We provide technology solutions to take your headaches away”. To generate greater revenue, one could adopt three key principles: Price one’s product or service in relation to its benefit and not costs of production; Offer customers a limited range of prices; and. Like me!

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2012

These expenses also apply to intangible products that require software developers, consultants, website managers, pay-per-click advertising, and other expenses associated with creating intangible products or services. And specifically to turn it into one that exceeds $10 million in revenues? This video explains more.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming. Crowdfunding.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. Internet Advertising Hits New Revenue Record – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts – [link]. Steve Jobs’s Strategy?

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. When building a personalized app for the donor registration organization DKMS, the software development team at Clevertech focused on simplifying and streamlining the original system to help retain users.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. Altimeter Report: Social Commerce, How Brands Are Generating Revenue in Social Media - [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. iPhone/iPad have 51% developer mkt share.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Disruptive solutions with new business models ( Horizon 3 ) require an a priori agreement on the criteria for creating a new business unit (revenue, profits, value-added, etc.). Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? Who will lead this new effort? Google’s Car organization is in the process of making this transition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Internet Ad Revenues Rise to Historic $17 Billion in First Half 2012, Up 14% Over Half-Year 2011, According to IAB – [link]. Want to get a job at a startup?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Utilizing a recently developed innovative technology, BetterView leads a revolution in the content world. Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Red All Over: Newspaper Revenues Fall In Q3 – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Your Brand is What You Do – [link].

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. Really hard.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

Don’t Confuse Growth with Success, and Don’t Delay the Revenue Model | Startup Management – [link]. Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Running a SaaS business?

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? Another tip (whether outsourcing or developing in-house, make sure you follow the “2-man&# rule, which means that you should have at least 2 people familiar with your code which gives you insurance in case one goes away or moves on.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

They cover topics like how to pivot your product and/or revenue model to find market fit, how to test a business idea before building the business, how to find a business model for your company, and how to build great companies. I figure, hey, we make (real, physical, heavy) stuff, I should bone up more on Lean Manufacturing.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Eric Ries of the Lean Startup movement also recently tried to clear up this confusion. As Grace Hopper (one of the original software developers) liked to say: “One accurate measurement is worth more than a thousand expert opinions.” Product Optimization is a hot topic. It can provide real value to teams.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I wasn’t a very good software developer, and I was only modestly capable as a UX designer, but I learned enough to recognize clean code and effective, inspiring design when I saw it. The concept of a Lean Product is to create a Minimum Viable Product Prototype that is tested with customers before the product moves on the ‘build’ phase.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

I like working with software developers. Fuel your growth, boost revenue and save precious time by upgrading to active campaign today. And then you have lean times and then the IRS loves you and they'll call you every day. So how you can pick, you might say, you know what, I like working with middle managers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". I'm a great example of someone who wasn't an authority on anything , but built that authority over time to the point where now my company (Smart Bear) is untouchable as the leader in both revenue and ideas in the area of peer code review. Like what??

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2014

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. In summary – I have been involved with software development for 25 years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. Not even if its generating revenue.

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