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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service. Instead, Facebook is the most popular social channel for customer service questions and is used twice as often as Twitter, which is the second most-used social media site.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

In both physical and Web/mobile channels, earlyvangelists display these common characteristics: They have a problem or need. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. The idea that a startup builds its product for a small group of initial customers rather than devising a generic mainstream spec is radical.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. on demand billing and fraud management. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Customer Development. Roku Channel Store. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses.