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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

A good day in front of customers is two steps forward and one step back. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.] The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) « Steve Blank (tags: startups entrepreneurship) [.]

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Vertical Markets 2: Customer/Market Risk versus Invention Risk.

Steve Blank

Markets with Invention Risk are those where it’s questionable whether the technology can ever be made to work – but if it does customers will beat a path to the company’s door. I have been following for about a month, and always look forward to the next post. How would that change my company strategy?

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5 Ways Writing A Book Will Supercharge Your Online Presence

Duct Tape Marketing

From tagging tweets and posts, to simply notifying business chambers and local media, you will find many venues and organizations that will be motivated to share your story on social media. 7 Stages of a Total Online Presence Seminar Archive Yesterday I conducted an online seminar to over 1,300 small.

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Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Zilog Correspondence Course Matchbook From that day forward, in my business and personal relationships, I would calculate the consequences of a “No&# for an answer against the benefits of getting a “Yes.&# The math said that it was almost always worth asking for what you want. All I had to do was ask. If not, don’t wait.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Specifically we’re working on building information stream handling tools (reducing large lists of incoming links and text into topical tags that can be searched or manually dug through) as well as connecting ads to a users interests (same tags now used for relevant ads/plugins).

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Email Deliverability: Get into More Inboxes, More Often

ConversionXL

One easy, effective way to reduce the likelihood of your emails getting tagged as spam is to encourage new subscribers to add your email to their address book. If your subscribers look forward to your emails, your open rates are naturally going to be higher, which can, in turn, positively affect your deliverability rates.

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The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth

trada.com

Fast forward to yesterday and Dan Frommer ( @fromedome ) of Silicon Alley Insider declares, “ Stealth Mode is Back.&# The problem with playing the competition is that you don’t know the holistic path your competitors are taking. Once you’ve carved out your own path, scale, scale, scale. I just read it carefully again.

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