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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. The reality for startups is that it’s not enough to build, design and ship a great looking app – marketing and distribution are critical to success. Slack or Discord).

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

The Jobs-to-be-Done Market Definition Canvas is designed to help you define the market you are in or have chosen to serve as [a group of people] + [the job they are trying to get done]. The Market Definition Canvas works for both B2C and B2B applications. Other products used and their functions.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Is there a profitable business model? Great post!

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear. It is incumbent upon you to listen.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She is recognized as a design and innovation leader in high-impact and philanthropy product development. She has coached and mentored a number of online business owners and ran numerous businesses such as health and fitness, web design, technology consulting and freelance writing. Website: talentculture.com.