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From Idea To Execution: Building An Efficient Workflow For Your New Venture

The Startup Magazine

This isn’t just about having a eureka moment; it’s about understanding the problem you’re solving and why it matters to your potential customers. Take the time to research your market, identify your target audience, and refine your idea until it’s both good and compelling.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Codecademy.

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How Much Should Bootstrapped Startups Spend on Marketing and Advertising?

Early Growth Financial Services

Question: How should bootstrappers allocate resources for marketing and advertising? CHANNEL YOUR INNER SETH GODIN “When I was starting TalentEgg, I read a lot of Seth Godin, and one point stood out to me in particular. Previously published in YEC. How do you figure out what’s reasonable when your company is still new?

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. A description of your target market or the different market segments you’re targeting. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

On the other hand, it’s a whole universe and you’d need an interesting perspective on why you should go attack that market and face all that competition and noise and everything that’s in the market. So when you’re thinking about marketing positioning to me, that side of it is the interesting side of it.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. What’s the total available market? What’s the ROI on acquiring new customers?

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