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Google Sites
Use your Google account (not your "Google Lite" Crimson account) to set up a prototype of the web site or platform you want to build with Google Sites.

Value Stream Mapping
Value stream mapping is a lean-management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from its beginning through to the customer. Value stream mapping (from University of Washington) Value stream mapping (from nwlean.net)

Experiment Map
Lean entrepreneur experiment map (credit to movestheneedle.com)

Experiment Board
Experiment Board for testing hypotheses (credit to free-thinking-cap.blogspot.com) PNG image of experiment board available here Step 1: Identify Your Leap of Faith Step 2: Follow the Experiment Loop instructions DOWN the first column Step 3: Go back to the top of the poster and repeat the process
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Google AdWords - you can rent some key words in geographic areas of your choice and get great information for a dollar a day. I did it. =Landing Pages= [|Launchrock.com] You have no excuse not to set up a launchrock account and start playing with its features. =Analytics= Set up a Google Analytics account and start using its tracking codes! =Getting feedback= Disqus.com for code to get comments from viewers of your web content. Get a Disqus account and get customized script to embed on your web pages. Disqus lists all the comments visitors have posted to your sites and has a dashboard for moderating your discussion posts.

=Put yourself out there= Get on LinkedIn. Get a professional looking head shot - not some picture where you cropped out the person whose arm is around your shoulder. Work on your relationships.