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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If you’re Oracle with 47 product lines in 100 countries and 20 languages with distributed teams of tech writers is this the best tool? Here’s the most common one which I got just this week: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0 So the team got to work.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Yep, build yr prototype – if you can code or convince some out of work or college level codehead to work for dirt.