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A Path to the Minimum Viable Product

Steve Blank

In other words, you prove retention. With both growth and retention, you earn the right to build more. Economic paid acquisition: Contribution margins from customers are recycled into advertising, marketing, and other PR activities that successfully drive additional customers. It’s really all that matters at the earliest stage.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Jason Reply jorge , on February 27, 2011 at 9:38 am said: wow. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. that is tenacity!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

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Cracking The Code: Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your.

Cracking the Code

2011. (2). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. sales and marketing. (10). Small and medium businesses. (2). software. (10). Venture Capital. (3). Blog Archive. ► 2012. (1). ► 01/15 - 01/22. (1). BlablaCar - Travel Revolution. ► 07/31 - 08/07. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars.

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Thursday Guest Stars :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct.

Duct Tape Marketing

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. All rights reserved.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I seized this opportunity to try an experiment in both client service and employee retention, by focusing on senior level staff first, and combining that with a flexible and healthy working environment that is not a mainstay in the public relations world. In 2011, I was looking for my next challenge. Image Credit: Dr. Rajiv Laroia.

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How to Name Your Startup

www.rocketwatcher.com

How to Choose a Meaningful Name for Your Startup « Zeus River says: October 31, 2011 at 10:53 am. [.] How to Choose a Meaningful Name for Your Startup - Zeus River says: October 31, 2011 at 3:39 pm. [.] customer retention. September 18, 2011. |. June 29, 2011. |. October 4, 2011. |. September 2011.

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