Crossing Gaps

A Digital Storytelling Firm

Prologue

We see the world in terms of stories, we love them, so much that we make a living telling them. We help creative people (that's you) tell better stories using the web.

We think good ideas want to be online, and we help them get there. We create holistic strategies that combine design and development with marketing and monetization.

When you leave us, we want you to go with your own story to tell and a platform to tell it well.

Find Us

Steve Spalding

steve@crossinggaps.com


Quang Tran

quang@crossinggaps.com


Nathan Thompson

nate@crossinggaps.com


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Latest Updates: startup lessons RSS

  • Quang Tran 4:03 am on June 20, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: mixergy, perspective (2), startup lessons, startups

    How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. / Mixergy


     

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  • Quang Tran 11:38 pm on June 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: entrepreneurship (3), Product Development, startup lessons, Steve Blank

    Steve Blank on Rethinking the Product Development Process

    The rest of the talk:

    1. Rethinking the ProductDevelopment Process
    2. Assessing Customer and Market Risks
    3. The Customer Development Process
    4. Engineers and Founders: The First Sales Team
    5. Don’t Seek Publicity Too Soon
    6. Company Building as Shakespearean Tragedy
    7. Acting on Customer Discovery
    8. No VP’s in a Start-up
    9. Intimate Customer Understanding

    Customer Development Methodology
    View more OpenOffice presentations from Venture hacks .
     
  • Quang Tran 10:51 pm on June 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Daily Short List, lists, social experiment (2), startup lessons, twitter (11)

    Daily Short List #1

    1. The Real Lessons From Twitter (post) - Tony Stubblebine

    2. StartupLessonsLearned (blog) - Eric Ries, cofounder of IMVU

    3. Pearls Before Breakfast (post / video) - Gene Weingarten

    4. What causes success? / The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters (post) - Marc Andreessen

    5. How to develop your customers like you develop your product (post) - Venture Hacks


    1.

    The features that mattered were defined by social interactions, and each user had their own customized set of features based on the social interactions that were important to them.

    3.

    If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music ever written, how many other things are we missing?

    4.

    And so you start to wonder — what correlates the most to success — team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure — what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak product, or a poor market?

    5.

    In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

    – Steve Blank

     
  • Quang Tran 3:07 am on June 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Jeff Bezos (2), startup lessons

    Errors of Omission

    We’ve made many errors. People over-focus on errors of commission. Companies over-emphasize how expensive failure’s going to be. Failure’s not that expensive….The big cost that most companies incur are much harder to notice, and those are errors of Omission.

    - Jeff Bezos on errors of Omission

     

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