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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

More on this in later posts.) I’ve seen startup CEO’s realize that their company could be much more profitable if they only could get rid of some portion of their existing customers. (It’s In fact, if you’re doing your job right as a startup, you’re encouraging customers to be passionate about your company and products.

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

ConversionXL

They’re full of unicorns and pixie dust and promises of like, ‘Hey, do these 9 things and you’ll get remarkable growth.’. That’s why growth processes are designed to make both ideation and execution smarter and more efficient. For example, in a year, do you think you can increase your retention by 30%? via CXL Live).

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SuperMac War Story 4: Repositioning SuperMac – “Market Type” at.

Steve Blank

Was the company attempting to introduce faster and better products to an existing market? On first glance this was exactly what we were trying to do. But with a little bit of thought it struck us that if we attempted to do that, our competitors had a pretty substantial advantage, since they held nearly 90% of combined market share.

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Five signs it’s time to get your business organized

www.greenhornconnect.com

If your company signs the contract, it is much more difficult for your business partner to hold you personally responsible if the obligations under the contract. Doing so is very risky, however, because you are personally responsible for repayment of the loan until the obligation is properly transferred to your company. About The Team.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. Agile software development.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Just as an aside, over my career I must have interviewed scores of business school graduates (some from the very fine universities where I now teach) who would say, “I want to do strategy.” Well yes, I understand that, but this is a startup, what else do you want to do? “I I just want to do strategy.” Yes you do.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

As the (very junior) product marketing manager I got a call from our local salesman that someone at Apple wanted more technical information than just the spec sheets about our new (not yet shipping) chip. The point about the Market Type is that there were no users or vendors who were doing this. There was no market for doing this.