My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach. 15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders. Enjoy mine.
So, it’s almost 3am. I was rather overwhelmed about 12 hours ago. It was intense. Blog post on it here.
I’m back from the Dishcrawl Oakland launch (pic of ribbon cutting below) [...]
My 15 minute brain dumps daily- a process I’m adopting after talking to Patricia of Lawless Coach. 15 minutes of focus daily can do wonders. Enjoy mine.
WOW. Wow wow wow. It’s been 3 days since a brain dump and WOW. Things have been moving at lightening speed and I’m trying to do 10 million things at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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