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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post!

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP.

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Marketing Sweat Equity: Getting Your Startup’s First Sales—Without Spending Money on Consultants and PR

Up and Running

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Current and new customers care a lot more about product or service quality, and the value of your item. Yep, you Google, Bing, or Yahoo it.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â??

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Entrepreneurs are often wearing ALL the hats in the business while they're bootstrapping through growth. This makes video production one of the most sought-after marketing and outreach techniques that entrepreneurs of all stages will need to use to connect with their prospects and customers. Thanks to Joe Flanagan, Velvet Jobs! #6-

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“Stay away from just making what the market is asking for” – How SF Gear Company DSPTCH Thinks About Design

Hunter Walker

Practically speaking, the burning need was to begin hiring employees so that I could spend more of my day on product development, partnerships and driving sales. RL: At a high level, technology has created many ways to increase our productivity while also providing freedom to run the business from anywhere in the world.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. So GoodData is an actual easy-to-use analytics package.