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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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How to Identify Your Online Target Audience and Sell More

ConversionXL

how they describe the type of services they offer, you can word the copy on your site to match the conversation in their head (very important!). It’s all about relevancy – if what you offer and how you present it matches their state of mind, you have gained a customer. … and so on and so forth. Talk to people.

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