A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It’s rarely true that your first customer will be big. But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. make for not putting customer development before writing code. It wasn’t true for me either.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. I specifically remember calling one airline, and they said, “Hey look, if our customers aren’t happy, they’ll just call us.” Clips from their interviews are below.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with his father in the family basement. But in the corporate world in 2002, no one was ready for it. I specifically remember calling one airline, and they said, “Hey look, if our customers aren’t happy, they’ll just call us.” Clips from their interviews are below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&# The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. It was a disaster.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

From 2002-08 Sec. Much of what we see is really developed indigenously. If you go to countries where the Web is heavily regulated, people’s access to different content is blocked or prohibited. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Blinken was Democratic Staff Director for the U.S.

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