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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

——— Yuri, one of my ex students started a big-data analytics company last year. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Coming up next on the blog: Emily Kennedy , founder and CEO of Marinus Analytics ; and Chris Cabrera , founder of Xactly. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. How could I build a solution that would address those points? If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Tune in Thursday, Oct. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Coming up next on the blog: Emily Kennedy , founder and CEO of Marinus Analytics ; and Chris Cabrera , founder of Xactly. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. How could I build a solution that would address those points? If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Tune in Thursday, Oct. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Startup Tools

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