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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

Consider the superb results companies are getting from this new way of thinking about customers: - Customer salespeople achieved, in effect, 80 percent close rates for Salesforce.com , which was key in growing their business in the face of much bigger, better-funded competitors. - You have to make it easy for them to do so.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. Can we touch base on this.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value.