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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

The answer depends on your answer to two questions: which step in the Customer Development process are you on? Customer Development and Selling Strategy If you’ve just started your company you are in customer discovery. Hiring a VP of Sales in customer discovery typically sets a startup back.

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When do I *stop* doing customer interviews and start writing code?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Here are the details of both of those customer development experiences. Capital Factory 2011 alum GroupCharger talked to 50 before building and another 50 after that. Recently at WP Engine I did some brand new customer development for a new project that we think will revolutionize WordPress blog management.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

The life sciences community is still warming-up to the value of customer development in the early stages of building new ventures”, says David Schonthal , MATTER Co-founder and Clinical Assistant Professor of entrepreneurship & innovation at the Kellogg School of Management. It Takes a Village.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

www.startuplessonslearned.com

They assume that the tasks that they are performing during the early stage of startup development are the same tasks that will be performed during the next and very different stages. ► 2011. (28). Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live. Stop lying on stage. ► March. (3). SXSW Update.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 18: Sarah Calhoun and Steve Sims

Steve Blank

In 2011, she served as a as a US Delegate to the APEC Women in Business Summit in San Francisco. The same year, President Obama invited her to attend a White House forum on jobs and economic development, and she was named Montana’s Entrepreneur of the Year. I held onto that (maxim) from an early stage, and it worked well for me.

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Innofund is designed to bridge early stage technology companies that have innovative technology and good market potential but are too early for commercial funding (banks or VCs.)

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

By 2011, there were a total of 1034 Technology Business Incubators across China, including 336 as National incubators, hosting nearly 60,000 companies. (20% Innofund is designed to bridge early stage technology companies that have innovative technology and good market potential but are too early for commercial funding (banks or VCs.)