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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., cloud, ec2, Amazon Web Services, etc.). but now they were actually trying to implement it. (If

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CEO Interview with BlazeMeter, Self-Served Load Testing in the Cloud

VC Cafe

While traditional cloud testing vendors target the enterprise market, BlazeMeter plans to revolutionize the load testing market in the same way AWS/EC2 disrupted the virtualization market by introducing a self-service low cost cloud and Heroku pioneered the first Ruby cloud. Our marketing efforts are focused on content marketing and SEM.

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