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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

20:21] Where can people find out more about your programs and your book? His book — Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. But I, what I wanna do in the a book is tell entrepreneurs, you can't just dive into it. So you are your, your business model.

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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. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Adriana has been a psychiatrist for 10 years; she understands the ins and outs of that business. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. seconds, is hard to replicate; it took hundreds (thousands?)

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Strategy Roundtable: Spotlight On Jacksonville, Florida

ReadWriteStart

Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. The problem, however, is that he is assuming that an investor would fund the product development. Even seed investors generally fund businesses that are already rolling. Getting access to restaurant booking data won't be easy.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If I collect all that together and call that all small business, which is a little unfair because of course they are different in how you’d get after them and so on, but for now, if I collect all that and say small business and organizations, is that what you want to target? Edwin: Oh sorry, so the business model.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.