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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

What are the value propositions, benefits and the messaging (bait), the pricing structure and channels (tackle), and length of sales cycle (how likely a fish will snap your line)? Or will you need to staff and finance a whaling ship to be out at sea for months at a time to catch two or three whales (enterprise sales model)?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could focus on standardizing a product that could have an automated sales cycle online. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. April 15, 2009 9:20 PM Shaun said.

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