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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

www.ashmaurya.com

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. The most common reason I send it is because I get in a rush due to something exciting about the opportunity. He is a Ph.D.

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. On the other hand, I haven’t done client based marketing since 2005 when I swore I’d never do it again.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Most of the ability to create a radio industry in the 1920s was due to the accident of ionospheric radio propagation. After I retired, Jerry Engel , director of the Lester Center on Entrepreneurship , at U.C.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. The rent was due. It was by far the easiest software around to build online courses and membership sites. When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. It all started in Dubai. I was 25 years old. So now what?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Every change required a server restart.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).