Affiliate Business Model Community Customer Development 
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10 weeks. While all the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ), Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, each of their journeys was unique.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 12, 2012
I offer the following suggestions: Build your own customer communities. Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff recognized early on that Facebook is how people, including his customers and prospects, want to communicate online. So his team developed a ‘Facebook-like’ platform called Chatter. Restore community marketing.
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YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Rather, they did these things because a) SAS software really was doing a terrific job, and b) getting the word out to their peers helped the customer champions build social capital. By nature, most all of us are open to creative new ways to affiliate with our friends and peers. Close the sale. Connect with your prospects (a.k.a.,
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 22, 2012
And with advances in technology and social media — along with the current boom in personal and professional communities — those who adopt customer reference programs must think much more broadly about the forms advocacy can take. Does she want to affiliate with her peers? Invite her to your user groups or customer events.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
A good mentor is someone who has been part of the startup community themselves – someone who has a realistic understanding of some of the basic dos and don’ts of starting up. Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. I hewar via thew grapevine that you’re thinking about a ‘Business Model Competition’ Interesting.
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