Archive | October, 2011

Engines of Growth

Per our previous post which was published on the Etsy blog, here is the second entry in our cutting-room floor conversations series with entrepreneur Eric Ries. Ashley: Would you mind going into a little bit more detail about how an Etsy seller would utilize the Lean Startup methodology? Say for instance an Etsy seller has [...]

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Passion and Failure

  A few weeks back we interviewed Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, and inspiration for this blog. It was a pretty awesome chat about how the lean startup principles can be applied to your craft biz. There is a condensed version of the interview on the Etsy blog. But why stop there?  There [...]

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Oh Customer, Where Art Thou?

When you started out on Etsy you were probably pretty overwhelmed.  Learning a new sales platform is in and of itself hard. Then there are the accounting solutions, the question of where to buy supplies, how to get a business license, how to collect taxes, and the list goes on and on. So-much-stuff.  If you [...]

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