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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. Size the market opportunity.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Two Sigma Ventures.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry. Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. Filed under: Customer Development. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Ajeet Singh.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry. Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. Filed under: Customer Development. Joining me in the Stanford University studio were. Ajeet Singh.

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Combining All Your Funnel Data into One Sheet

ConversionXL

Some bits and pieces could be found in Google Analytics, while other data was stored in BigQuery and ProfitWell. The stage where your customers are actively researching for more information; during this stage social proof , and testimonials play an important role. The stage in which a customer makes a purchase.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Cloudant - Database as a service (backed by Avalon). Localytics – Mobile Analytics (backed by Polaris). Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup.

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