YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
In today’s hypercompetitive, customer-driven business world, you need to look at new ways to make your business stand out. By exploring customer service initiatives, new sales channels, and private label financing, to name a few, you can attract and keep new customers. Improve the Customer Experience.
Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. Here is a brief summary of each.
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The Startup Magazine
MARCH 29, 2024
It’s not just about a logo or a tagline; it’s the experience you promise your customers. Develop a marketing strategy that leverages both digital and traditional channels. Understand your costs, both fixed and variable, and plan your finances accordingly to sustain operations and fuel growth.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited.
Steve Blank
JULY 24, 2012
I Know A Great Customer. As other startups were quickly automating all the department of large corporations (SAP-manufacturing, Oracle-finance, Siebel and Onyx-Sales) our first thought was that our company was going to automate enterprise-marketing departments. Filed under: Customer Development , E.piphany , Marketing.
Steve Blank
JUNE 23, 2016
Second, the leaders of these companies tended to be those who excelled at finance, supply chain or production. Their most profitable segment is very high-end processors used in data centers in servers and the cloud. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups. But it’s not over for Intel.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 14, 2013
“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.
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