Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, describes a startup as: a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Our company, while not the stereotypical garage startup, fits all three aspects of this definition. Every project our team undertakes is essentially a startup effort designed to (hopefully)…
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What I’ve learned about crowdSpring
For those of you that don’t know, crowdSpring is a crowdsourcing site for logo, business card, illustration, and web site design. Basically crowdSpring manages design contests. If you need a logo, you just describe what you are looking for and put up the prize money. The creatives then compete for that prize – submitting their designs…
Being a lean startup
I read Steve Blank’s “The Four Step to the Epiphany” a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. In a nutshell Gary argues that startup founders need to begin a ”customer development” process from the get go. The key insight is that questions regarding the needs of the user can almost never be answered in your own conference room,…
