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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

The VP of Sales comes to a board meeting, still optimistic, and provides a set of reasonable explanations – “our pipeline looks great, but orders will close next quarter” or “we’ve got lots of traffic to our site, we just need to work on conversion.” A startup might simply not get a next round of funding and have to shut down.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

Filed under: Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Signals Intelligence , Cold War , Fred Terman , Electonic Warfare « I’m From the Government and I’m Here to Help You Coffee With Startups » 5 Responses Business Incubation 101 (India) « InnExperience – Innovation goes bananas!!

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

” If you’re worried, you can use a canonical tag. Yes, but there are certain keywords that have to remain in the H1 tag, so there’s the realistic prospect of losing traffic if they change it out for a clearer, benefit driven headline. But even the current state of SEO and optimization is pretty optimistic.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Happy Holidays

Altgate

I’m optimistic as ever about next year. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Venture Capital and tagged startups , venture capital. Lorem Ipsum is Evil → [link] Tweets that mention @altgate » Blog Archive » Happy Holidays — Topsy.com [.] So happy holidays to you and yours. link] Enjoy! [.]

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6 Questions To Ask Before Launching a New Feature

usersknow.blogspot.com

I toyed with putting this one into the list of really basic questions that nobody would need reminding of, but then I realized that I was being hopelessly optimistic. Tags: startupcto. Do I Have a Plan to Monetize it? Look, I don’t actually think that every single feature needs to make direct revenue.

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Thoughts On Market Timing

Altgate

I think this is reflected in (and partially caused by) the “entrepreneurs must be optimists&# stigma. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneur , management , market timing , skill. Who cares if you’re good at bailing water if you’re heading into the perfect storm?