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The Magic Behind Getting Feedback About Your Startup

I’ve been meeting with many new entrepreneurs as of late, especially with the Scrappy Startup lunches I host monthly.

I’ve begun seeing a trend with the initial set of questions that run through one’s mind when starting a company.  I had these questions too, so they always make me smile.   

Here are a couple tips crucial to set [...]

Back to Basics- Simple, Useful Products Born with Lean Startup Principles

I’ve played with many advanced monitoring tools like Scout Labs and Radian6, but damn, after I looked at all the exciting things these fantastic tools could do for me, I realized Dishcrawl wasn’t at that stage yet. It is important for us to keep it simple and get back to guerrilla tactics that are so successful for us as a small startup. And although I enjoy playing Lone Ranger on an expedition looking for potential customers on sites like Chow (in Dishcrawl’s case), searching for people online to converse with can be time consuming. But hell, you do it anyways. I grew numb to the amount of time suck and process seeking out information on multiple sites [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]