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2.5 Founder Insight 6/7/12
TheFunded.com Open Letter
Posted by Gopal Kamath on 2012-06-07
Founder Insight is a weekly newsletter that provides global insights from the people building great startups. Each week we’ll send you an exclusive training video from inside the Founder Institute, as well as other helpful resources from startup communities around the globe. Click here to subscribe
Video of the Week
’Performing Startup Market Research on the Cheap’ by Dan Shapiro - In this video from the Seattle Founder Institute, Dan walks through a tactical step by step framework to research a market on a shoestring budget using Mechanical Turk, Surveymonkey, Google Adwords, and Excel. He explains how to build and optimize surveys, ways to evaluate ideas, and analyzing results.
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Dan Shapiro's presentation is the best shoestring market research analysis I've ever seen--really useful. Thanks for posting it!