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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

This makes lean supply chains more robust in the face of the unexpected: if sales suddenly dry up, they are stuck with less unsold inventory and simultaneously have less debt to service. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

I thought we were having a successful conversation. Back to my conversation with the company I met recently. This is usually exacerbated by zealous sales persons who oversell the features, or even more typical, promise completely new features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. Is that a lot?

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

Sales depend on being right (whereas in UGC we can pretty much try anything, and promote the winners). Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.