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The Growth Marketing Process: How to Shake Your Growth Hack Addiction

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You can’t growth hack your way into problem-solution fit or product-market fit, so really focus on that first. Just ensure each new idea added to your backlog (more on this shortly) is tagged with the correct multiplier. I recommend reading this article by Alex Birkett if you are trying to foster that type of culture.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

When a startup finds a repeatable sales process and steadily increasing revenue, its investors wants to harvest the rewards and build a culture of “execution.” Microsoft forcing users of Windows XP to have to format their disks to upgrade to Windows 7 seems to fit this pattern as well.) Steve Blank: Let’s fire our customers [.]

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

A Phone Call After I left MIPS Computers I was in New York tagging along with a friend (a computer architect whose products at Apple a decade later would change the shape of personal computing) who was consulting for a voice recognition startup. It would be the company where I actually earned the title. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

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tags: lean startup ) Labels: customer development , events , lean startup , slides 8comments: Nivi said. Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. Im working on a post that links to those videos too.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

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So what you want to do next is to think about all the functions in your business and where they fit in your long term success (or ability to learn) and identify as targets for outsourcing partially or in time. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture.

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The Steps of the Recruiting Process … and How to Identify Failure Points

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Browse Articles by Tag. Browse Articles by Tag. If you’re targeting top performers or poaching from competitors, the remaining steps of the recruiting process must be designed to “fit” the needs in the job search process of your targeted candidate if you expect to even gain their attention. tags: hiring.

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

It has become an integral part of startup culture. Ironically, the model is a good fit when launching a new product into an existing , well-defined market where the basis of competition is understood, and its customers are known. The irony is that few startups fit these criteria. None of mine did.)