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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio.

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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Life Beyond Code

Disclaimer : This is the framework we use at Foresight Plus to craft startup stories. How do you know that the problem is real if you have never talked to the target customer? Nothing can replace the power of actual experience but being prepared and equipped will take that experience to a whole new level.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Heres what it looked like. This is an exciting kind of change, usually.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

One way to evaluate this fear is to spend time on analysis: how many customers will be affected? How upset will those customers be? In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. One way to evaluate this fear is to spend time on analysis: how many customers will be affected?

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

5 Reasons to Stop Exhibiting at Trade Shows A New Marketing Framework If Your Message Works, Don’t Tinker With It 04. Subscribe in a reader Popular Latest Comments Tags 7 Rules for Perfect Press Releases Influencers Suck Selling vs. Buying: A Marketing Wake-up Call Twitter: Is Marketing Doing it Wrong?

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How to Name Your Startup

www.rocketwatcher.com

Big thanks to @aprildunford for providing a framework around one of the hardest things in a startup: [link]. A Startup Marketing Framework (Version 2) 125 comment(s). advisory board. advisory council. customer development. customer retention. customer service. marketing framework.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages.