Remove Business Model Remove CTO Remove Product Development Remove Sales
article thumbnail

Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help. Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Highly trained salespeople.

Customer 154
article thumbnail

The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Do Market Research

Up and Running

Instead, we built a product first (that’s expensive!) and then started hunting around for the right target market (that’s usually the cheap part of product development). Do it because it will greatly reduce risk as you start your business. Do it because it will improve your marketing and sales process.

article thumbnail

Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. Selling JAIC Like Enterprise Sales.

article thumbnail

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Pitch an idea :) Usually somewhere in the pitch the listener will ask if you’d also be interested in being a CEO, CTO, etc at something they are already funding! Hopefully your idea of business model isn’t “ad revenue based”.

article thumbnail

What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader. Spencer Fry • Nov 27, 2010 I guess i still need that sales guy. Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.