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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

After many sales calls, early prospects showed little rush to buy it! However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products. Customer Development Education. But customers didn’t agree.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Total raised: $6.0mm. -Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. if you’re just offering a product for sale? The Rails 1.0

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

MANPOWER STUDY SHOWS DEMAND FOR HI-TECH WORKERS IN ISRAEL UP 41%. According to research conducted by the personnel firm Manpower, the demand for high-tech workers rose 41.3% The demand for all workers in Israel rose 16.6%. Perrigo, which recorded net sales of $2.7 INTEL-ISRAEL DEVELOPS NEW CHIP “SANDY BRIDGE”. .