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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in. Word of mouth spreads faster and sales cycles are shorter.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

This topic leans primarily into the direction of conversion optimization that becomes increasingly important with the competition in the virtual environment. To meet these critical goals, a sales report should cover all of the following topics: Daily goals and quotas. Average time for completing the sales cycle.

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Using Lean Six Sigma to End Baffling Business Problems

The Startup Magazine

For instance, a dip in sales in a week might appear problematic, but then when sales pick up the next week, it’s safe to assume the problem was a mere aberration in your sales cycle. The post Using Lean Six Sigma to End Baffling Business Problems appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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How to Craft (Or Pivot) Your Agency Value Proposition

ConversionXL

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. I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Why—or why not—pivot your agency service offering?

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