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Sayahh’s Financial Statements For August 2011

Feld Thoughts

Now that Dick and Jane have added a CTO to SayAhh’s founding team, they’ve turned their full attention to working on their product. Since SayAhh is in the pre-launch development stage, the company doesn’t have any revenue yet.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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3 Major Product Fails, And How To Avoid Their Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a look at three of the largest recent product fails, the reasons behind them, and how research can help you avoid the same pitfalls: 1. Google released Chromebook in October 2011, offering a faster and easier way to access the Internet. The product was known as a “thin client” and had no hard drive. Google Chromebook.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. A few other highlights from this year’s lineup: How Groupon is using Lean Startup ideas to scale their product development team, by VP of Product Development Suneel Gupta.

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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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Gnip Is On Fire

Feld Thoughts

Jud is an extremely experienced CTO / technical product manager and developer, but had never been a CEO. I expect we’ll look back on 2011 as the year that Gnip went from a highly product development focused company to a company that was firing on all cylinders.

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