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The Failed All-In-One Product- The One You're Building.

You’re taking over the world right?  You have a GREAT idea for a product.  You’re doing customer development.  This product can be used in so many different ways and across all these different segments and it’s so cool and 5 different types of businesses completely unrelated to each other can use it!  Cool.  Now how [...]

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. [...]