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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. I know we have to create something users find valuable (the two-way search, games?) As for #3. I agree completely.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Follow PandoDaily: Search. It’s started by Marc Ruxin , a former A&R man for EMI Records who has been on a million advisory boards in the Valley and had several jobs in and around pop culture. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Get Tickets. Fireside Chat with Mark Pincus. Post navigation.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Take your typical scalability bottleneck. At any given point in time, which is the right solution?

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. If you enjoyed that, you should subscribe! You can sign up for email updates, subscribe via RSS or follow me on Twitter.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

A new tool that will help the entrepreneur in the trademark issue is Markify – a trademark search that finds all similar trademarks. This kind of search normally costs more than $500… Test your name [link] so you don’t end up with a name that is confusingly similar to an existing trademark.