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What is a lean startup and why should I go this route?
I'm considering a startup that starts with a minimum viable product. Despite what I've read, the lean startup feels contra-effective.
My question to the community is, what exactly defines a 'lean ...
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Is it bad to juggle small projects from time to time?
Coming up with ideas for entrepreneurs isn't really a problem. Execution on the other hand, as I have experienced, is by far the hardest thing to keep on top with, especially if you have to keep your ...
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Should I show pricing on a test landing page?
I put up a test landing page for a SAAS product/service that I think has potential. My goal is to test the market to see if there is enough interest to justify building out the product/service.
The ...
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Any interest in a short, weekly email highlighting one vocabulary term? [closed]
Everyone remembers those page-a-day calendars we all got for Christmas in the 90s, right? Farside comics, Jeopardy questions, cute cats. I have an interest in curating a once-a-week email highlighting ...
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How do you know it's time to pivot?
What are some clear signs that indicate you should consider changing your strategy and pivot?
To set some context, I'm working on an product for more than a year now, mostly in spare time next to ...
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Starting a blog while product is in-development stage?
I am developing an online management platform for certain type of business and I thought that it would be a really good idea to engage possible customers from an early stage by keeping a blog about ...
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Whats best MVP on Mobile app with a local developer or web app with outsourcing team?
I've been outsourcing for a while to create the MVP on a web app. I never get what I'm asking for from these outsourcing teams, they take longer than expected, or they just disappear. It's been a huge ...
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What's the negatives & positives of creating a mobile app with different functionalities from the web app?
I'm creating a marketplace website.
I was thinking keeping the marketplace exchange on the web app and a much simpler version on the mobile app providing only profiles with some other cool perks you ...
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How should I structure finances for experiments? I'd like these activities to be separate from my personal assets.
Reading Lean Startup makes me keen to test the waters and try out some ideas to see if they might eventually become a business.
This might involve projects in very different areas with different ...
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Looking for first customers; is it a good idea to offer our services completely for free?
We are going to creating a start up that offers services to biotechs; our deliverable is to discover bioactive compounds in a given biological context (such as pharma). We want to follow some of the ...
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Technical Co-Founder Contract
There are a couple startups I'm thinking about joining. They are in very early stages (seed round or incubation). I am interested in the position of technical co-founder.
They've all asked that we ...
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Does Lean startup work in Mobile?
I started reading into the lean start-up method, and it makes a lot of sense that this is the way to start a company. The thing is, can this method work with a mobile app, where it can take a while ...
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How can I apply the Lean Startup technique to an online course
The course will be made up of videos and we're going to have them professionally filmed all at one time, and we won't be able to do them twice, so I'm not sure how I would make a minimum viable ...
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Lean Startup Landing Page Test: How do I measure success?
I've set up a landing page for a startup idea as per the instructions here. In other words I have already done the following:
I've set up a basic landing page quickly explaining my idea
I've ...
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After private beta, when would a SaaS startup need a public beta before public launch?
We currently running an early adopter with about 30 users getting ready for a private beta of our SaaS collaboration/project management tool for Agile software development team. Lean Startup camp ...
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What kind of project collaboration tools are used in a lean startup [closed]
We would like to understand the kind of tools which are used by other startup(s) for maintaining their projects.
Project hosting (SVN or Git) - We have finalized on using Git.
Email collaboration - ...
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Is bootstrap a startup development methodology?
I've always understood bootstrapping in the context of startups to mean that the business achieves sustainability through customers, not loans, equity deals, etc.
Ash Maurya has a blog post from a ...
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How can I get to product-market fit?
Context: I've been reading up on lean startups for a year and have been flailing unsuccessfully trying to launch one. It's been a tough go, but I have gained a lot of validated learning through my ...
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Winning Lean Startup Machine, how are winners selected?
Even though the Lean Startup Machine events are focused on startup teams rapidly engaging markets to produce measurable results, comparing the results between the teams seems like it might be hard to ...
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has anyone applied “lean business practice” to the initial startup team?
Instead of thinking about the "product" and iterative cycles of prototyping while building a community who will be your future market, has anyone played with simultaneously iterative cycles of company ...
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How to get honest feedback from users you know personally?
I am about to build a proof-of-concept website, and I intend to build on it using "Lean Startup" principles. I have friends and acquaintances lined up to try it out, and I will solicit their ...
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How can I add “the lean startup” philosophy to a company that makes physical goods?
I've read the book and it covers more web/software based companies. What if someone is selling t-shirts, toys, tablets, computers etc.?
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What's the best way of validating your idea with AdWords?
I have an idea that I want to try and validate via a landing page and Google adwords. The plan is to try and get 100 visitors a day for a few weeks and measure conversions. Pretty standard stuff.
The ...
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Does the Lean methodology make sense for B2B and if so what are the important aspects to consider?
The Lean Start-up methodology seems to make some implicit assumptions (such as about the number of available customers) that, IMHO, do apply well to B2C but not so much to B2B. Can anyone point me to ...
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What's the opposite of “Lean?”
All I hear about nowadays is the Lean Movement. I like it, but what is it rebelling against?
The status quo, I know, but what's the name of non-lean thought?
For example, the opposite of "Agile" is ...
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MVP testing - what metrics should I record?
I recently launched a small MVP. It's a web app which is supposed to make file uploading easier, without the need to register, use complicated UIs or have porn popups be thrown at you ( ;) ).
Right ...
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Are books, videos, and blogs targeting startups really useful or are they just a distraction?
These days internet startups have gained a lot of popularity among young people and developers of all ages. Because of this same reason, many people have also started to benefit from this popularity ...
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Where can I find site or wordpress themes based on call to action?
I would like to find themes based on the call to action I need - for example, I need a theme with an email signup as the main call to action - any one know of a themes website?
Should I build one? ...
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Is there any mix from Agile Methodology with Customer Development Process?
Is there any mixed source or book about how to use Agile Development with Customer Development Process? Or with Lean or Toyota strategy?
I'm really curious about it. Thanks
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What are the cons of going with Lean Startup Strategy?
What should one consider before going with Lean Startup and MVP Strategy. Are there any cons that one should be aware of?
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Right action, right time--what's the next action?
I'm following the lean startup/customer development process (particularly Ash Maurya's 'Running Lean' book) and I have been implementing tasks in parallel rather than in a queue. At the moment, I am ...
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What if you didn't START lean?
I have successfully launched a startup. It is a niche school management system for Montessori Schools. It's profitable but doesn't produce a lot of income (translated: can't quit my day job). My ...
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finished beta testing, fixing stuff before launch. what are some good sites to spread news about your launch date?
I am looking for some sites to submit to. paid or free. Currently on my startup web app site, I have a screencast up there, and an email submit form.
I am quite close to having a finalized product. ...
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What do you do when your software with minimum features is taking forever to develop?
This will be tough to explain but....
What do you do when you are developing a software that needs to deal with large amount of variations of semi structured data from the web ?
I told myself it ...
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How important are risk management plans to startups?
I've been reading about startups and entrepreneurship, and the resources that I've liked the best (the lean startup camp) don't seem to address risk management planning.
I'm wondering if formal risk ...
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Question on lean startup approach
I am coming across a lot of material (blogs, books and videos) about lean startup. The overall approach is nothing new but the availability of a lot more details, case studies and statistics are ...
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Testing an idea using Google PPC
So you put a page with a description of the idea, put up some ads using AdWords and you had say 10 clicks with a CTR of 0.45%. Of the 10 clicks, 1 person signed up for a newsletter.
Is this a good ...
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Lean startups - iterations
I've been looking into lean startups. One pressing question (for me anyway). If we take a basic cycle..
build -> deploy -> sell -> feedback -> build -> deploy -> sell -> feedback....
On each ...
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Is Pre MVP a good idea?
Our Minimum Viable Product will be an online service. Development takes some time.
Meanwhile we would like to release a small but supposedly impressive feature for free. The goal is to get some ...
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Struggling with the timing of our website
We have just completed our first prototype and are now considering the online introduction process. Of course we are united as a company in the belief that we have a buzz worthy and remarkable ...
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Strategy for unveiling a social network?
I have identified a niche community, for which I want to build a social network.
From compete.com, I see that the TAM is at least 10K unique active users. Their web activites revolve around an archaic ...
