2005 Affiliate Customer Development Product Development 
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. affiliate and referral marketing on the web. Great for visualizing work of product development.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
the meebo that launched in 2005 was a group effort – the idea primarily came from sandy being a huge IMer and having trouble getting on IM when we were working on earlier ideas in elaine’s apartment! The “business person&# should be working non-stop validating the product/service well before the first version is ready.
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