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JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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APRIL 15, 2010

On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Domain Experience – “Domain experience&# means that the founders have worked in the industry before. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls).

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