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Demo Your Startup at the Scrappy Startup Happy Hour!

Hello everyone!

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted, I’ve been busy on the dishcrawl blog, but now that dishcrawl’s food mistress in residence Scarlet has taken over that, hopefully I’m able to breathe? (yeah right)

Anyways, a Scrappy Startup happy hour has been scheduled.  The point of this event is to give back to the [...]

The Redesign of a Landing Page: From Conception to Fruition

SIMILARITIES IN LANDING PAGE DESIGN
Value proposition is about a sentence and placed on the top left hand corner.
All have logo on top left quadrant.
Top right hand corner explains the product in further detail via screen shot or product breakdown.
Further information about the product below the fold. I like that.
Big clicky clicky “call to action” [...]

Evolution: The Beginning of Scrappy Startup Forum

The purpose of this blog was to share a greater wealth of knowledge to people, particularly in the startup community.  I’ve decided to start http://scrappystartupforum.com instead where we can ALL contribute and discuss our issues related to startup.  If you want to talk leanstartup, the lean startup circle is great for you.  If you want [...]

Scrappy Startups: A Conversation with Jon Boutelle/SlideShare & Dan Martell/Flowtown

In the spirit of lean startups and the current economic situation, it was refreshing for Jon and Dan to tell us stories about scrappy startups and the mentality behind scrappy.

What stuck the most to me was the differentiation betweetn lean startup and scrappy startup.

Lean Startup is a methodology, Scrappy Startup is a mentality.
(Thank you, Dan and Jon for enlightening us on this distinction.)

More scrappy stories were shared on how SlideShare scrappified their way to success, how Dan Martell trained his employees in the back of a car while driving to and from meetings, and suggestions on how to be scrappy in your own [...]

A Year of Lessons Learned in Startup and a #fempire 2010

In any startup, there are a multitude of things that can and will go wrong- over and over again. Do you let things like this discourage you? Have the determination to pull forward. If you understand your surroundings, you can then instinctually prepare for them and recover fast when the pebbles come your way.If you’re a woman, join the [...]

Don't Fly Blindly- Startup Acceleration and Metrics with Sean Power, Hiten Shah, and Josh Porter

Checkout this awesome #leanstartup #measure video with Sean Power (@seanpower), Hiten Shah (@hnshah) and Josh Porter (@bokardo) on startup acceleration and metrics brought to you by LiveUmbrella and KISSmetrics at our last Entrepreneurs Lounge. [...]

MVP (minimum viable product) and Lean Startup concepts applied to traditional business

MVP (minimum viable product) and Lean Startup concepts applied to traditional business

you want to create something *perfect*, something that differentiates you from the rest of your competition. You tell yourself you can’t release because your brand might be compromised, or people might not think your product is *professional* enough. Here’s an eye-opener: no one cares. And crossing all your T’s ain’t gonna help the [...]

Domain Names for Startups and A/B Testing

how to choose domain names using the lean startup methodology and ab testing domain names, a collaborative blog post between tracy lee and omar ead on google [...]