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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Price is as important as any other feature to determine product/market “fit.” ” How many times have you seen someone struggle with an inferior product because they cannot afford the better one? .”

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Bootstrap Mentality: Key Ingredient For Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

Bootstrap was term coined from the computer lingo ‘booting’ which means starting a computer or starting a chain of processes which eventually starts up the operating system. In the startup world, bootstrapping essentially means funding your own venture and not being too dependent on external sources. Spend Wisely. Experiment.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. But all things are never equal. What’s going on?

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Strategy Roundtable: Do Not Spray and Pray

ReadWriteStart

Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. TheNextBigZing.com.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation. For example: if you’re creating a new Mailchimp competitor, you might think your product is differentiated if let’s say your product has better tracking than they do. Especially at the early stages.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

Note: by differentiation, I’m not talking about product or feature differentiation but outcome differentiation. For example: if you’re creating a new Mailchimp competitor, you might think your product is differentiated if let’s say your product has better tracking than they do. Especially at the early stages.