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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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Times Square Strategy Session ā€“ Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, ā€œIā€™m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. Dave McClure has some great metrics…ā€ It was an honest but vaguely unsatisfying answer. As for #3. I agree completely.

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Growth: The problem solver that creates problems

The Next Web

My startup is a B2B platform, we feel that we are the best in the world in creating social reviews and pushing the user-generated content to social media, emails and search engines to drive more sales and leads to the website. Currently we are based in Israel and we are making steps in establishing our US based HQ.

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Create a segment for Organic Search traffic. Back to our story.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. I would love to be on your advisory board. And thats where the call for help comes in.

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Raise Capital With The Skin Youā€™re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

Your potential investors search for you on Google before doing business with you. Jeanne Sullivan , co-founder, StarVest Partners, strongly recommends creating an advisory board, especially in the early days. That advisory board would be able to say, ā€˜Don really knows what to do and how to do it: organized, smart, and more.ā€™ā€.

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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

Steve Blank

The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Certain VCā€™s like the new class of Super-Angels and small VC funds specialize in the early stage of a startup where you are searching for a business model. Some VC’s get it, others may not.

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