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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center.

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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

www.ashmaurya.com

You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. There are many channels that can produce your first early customers and contacts, but the one I see most often is cold email. I also assume you can generate a list of those people to contact.

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How To Create Customer Personas With Actual, Real Life Data

ConversionXL

When was the last time you took a long hard look at what makes your customer base tick? Think customer personas – those detailed representations of the different segments of your target audience. The UK based customer experience management firm, Thunderhead.com, conducted a similar study of U.S.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. And most startup code and features end up on the floor as customers never really wanted them.

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The 3 Step Approach To Successful Customer Activation

ConversionXL

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale. image source.

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3 Steps To “Activate” Visitors and Convert Them To Subscribers, Leads & Customers

ConversionXL

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale. image source.

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The 3 Step Approach To Successful Customer Activation

ConversionXL

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale. image source.

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