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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

But instead of spending the time to move these unprofitable customers politely to some other company, (hopefully a competitor) founders tend to want to do it immediately. If you’ve had taken the time to fire them politely with a bit more panache and patience, they’re likely to break less furniture as they leave.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Humanize Management and Set Information Free

Reid Hoffman

Meetings will be recorded, transcribed, and archived in a knowledge repository. In the absence of data, internal politics and unconscious bias can play a major role, resulting in performance management that is biased and inaccurate. Show me a tag cloud of the topics my predecessor was spending his time on.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

Contact Author Email : Simon The End Of The Road For Web Services A decade of corporate politics by the big software companies is finally over as WS-I shuts up shop and gets folded in to OASIS. Sadly, that was the last thing the Internet really needed. It took many, many years for that doom to be made reality. Goodbye, WS-I.

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Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

I walked into the VP of Sales’ office and with my knees trembling, I politely asked for the job. Ask and It Shall be Given « Steve Blank (tags: startup marketing) [.] Then it hit me – no one else wanted to be manager – what was the worst that could happen? Get out of the building and meet people.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

And the question is whether we can have an economic revolution without a political revolution.” Filed under: ESL , Secret History of Silicon Valley , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Bill Perry , ESL , Signals Intelligence , Cold War « Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? defense spending even higher.

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How do I find a developer to help me with my idea?

www.scottporad.com

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Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners.

Steve Blank

That’s a polite way of saying, “Unlike product development, finding the right customers and market is unpredictable, and we will screw it up several times before we get it right.” Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development « Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?