Thank you for your question. I love real estate and have been dealing in this business for almost 20 years now across the world. I've personally invested in quite a few countries around the world and have learned a good deal of this business the hard way. It's always important to have a good bro...
Pre-orders are always great for testing demand, eliciting end-user feedback and even generating a little revenue! You just have to be sure that you can fulfill whatever product or service the customer is paying for, beta or otherwise. Relative to b2b vs. b2c, I can't really speak to that based on...
LinkedIn is the world's best recruiting source. The advanced search fields allow you so much criteria to build a hit list of potential candidates. Making direct outreach will likely result in a 20-30% response rate. I'd look for someone who is less entrepreneurially inclined by targeting peopl...
I don't have any tools or articles off the top of my head, but I can share some tips on evaluating decisions like this. I think there are two key questions to answer when evaluating investment decisions like this. First, what is my outcome I hope to get? Secondly, are there any objective metri...
First, avoid UPC codes. They're expensive + cumbersome + Amazon no longer uses them... or rather... even if you have a UPC code, you'll require replacing these with the Amazon AISN number assigned you. https://www.gs1us.org - UPC Mafia, where you purchase UPC codes. More important is a high th...
Speak at Co-Work offices + Tech Meetups + Tech Conferences. Give 100 talks (easier than you think) + monitor your App usages every 10 talks. If people flock to your App, then just keep giving talks. If they don't, then either your App requires retooling or your messaging/explanation requires r...
Cool concept, but yeah, it can be time consuming. While there may be automated ways to do this, another way to consider the demands of the individualized approach is to think of the effort as an investment in the relationship. Down the road, this investment could pay dividends, including: * when ...
Experts Exchange or Stack Overflow will be better places to ask this question.
Ries owns 'Lean Startup' trademark. I doubt 'lean' by itself is trademark-able, and isn't claimed by Eric. Someone else may claim 'lean career development,' so might be worth a trademark search.
If you have zero resources, this is exactly how I would proceed. Especially without technical skills. 1.) Go to tomodo.com 2.) Skin the growthhacker.tv site. with your own graphics. 3.) Manually reach out to people on letslunch.com who are developers and show them mockups of your site that yo...