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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. How you convinced them to pay up when code review at that stage was nonexistent? Often they’ll agree if it means a steep hourly discount or cheaper maintenance costs.)

Customer 231
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How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything

Feld Thoughts

In 2002, I met Libba and Gifford Pinchot, cofounders of Bainbridge Graduate Institute , at a retreat. I could spend that time on Facebook, but at the cost of not writing. During this period, I helped Hewlett-Packard save on the order of ten million dollars a year on customer support costs, roughly a 100x return on my salary.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. Have a cushion.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Make your choices only after you’ve done some due diligence with other companies where they’ve served. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost? Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago.

SBA 60
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53 Top Conversion Optimization Tools Reviewed by Experts

ConversionXL

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. The dashboard is just a plain list of tests on a white background.

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Episode 90: The Adversity of Profitability with Dr. Rob Garcia

Mike Michalowicz

He joined the Air Force and learned the traits of success: hard work, diligence, and developing an unyielding desire for success. He moved to San Diego in 2002 and taught Engineering at Morse High School for five years, despite never having an Engineering degree. ” Dr. May 22-25, 3016. Corporate Partners.