A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. This is often B2C because the value is in quantity of customers, and there’s 100x more consumers than businesses. $1/mo Even bootstrapped businesses can make this work (e.g. simple enough to be self-service).
The Startup Magazine
MARCH 29, 2024
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 27, 2017
As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it. We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. There were no investors.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 8, 2016
As CEO, Ryan has grown Qualtrics to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it. We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. There were no investors.
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