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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 5: Customer Relationship Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Many of the students had heard phrases that fall under Customer Relationships before; “customer acquisition, SEO/SEM, public relations, Social Network, Advertising, Loyalty programs, cross-sell and up-sell” etc., They had gotten feedback from consultants and industry experts that cities and utilities might be a more receptive audience.

Customer 247
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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Maybe it is a publicly accessible staging server at EC2 spun up by a developer who has since left the company and not shut down because, hey, $20 a month. You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand. They have already patched most of their main apps, but they missed one. You now have a PCI-reportable data breach.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It was the wrong audience. And, the audience that did actually read it likely has none of the people he is complaining about in it. There are as many half-ass php programmers as there are Msft platform developers because the target audience has been the same for the drone users (asp, vb, web forms). It is ironic.

Java 107