ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This enables you to truly understand your customers and to help them. Know your talents, develop a skill people value. I made a conscious decision to become the best in the world at something, specifically becoming the master of knowing what it takes to get products in the hands of customers. ( Solve your own problem.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

They’ll make much more sense if you watch the video or read some of the earlier posts for context. Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Almost all of it is in one giant fixed-cost bucket: salaries. If youre coming in to work groggy and therefore are not spending time with customers, Im willing to bet it is. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? And all of that cost was caused by one activity: hiring.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. While I earned a good salary, I got up and went to work every day not because of the pay, but because I loved what I did. Customers voted with their wallets and didn’t buy our products. I was always learning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. You can see the whole video at the end of this post. Voluntary salary reduction program.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers. Maple Butter. How do I stay motivated?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. I made them a pretty good offer – hire me as a training instructor at the salary they were [.] Reply Ben C. , Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. However, I think if I had understood the basics of Customer Development I might have done 5-6 startups rather than 8 to get to retirement. The idea of taking a video of your kids every month, on the couch, for 16 years. It takes two.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status. So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? Three reasons: change the world, make customers’ lives better and create an organization of lasting value.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I worked for a online video tech company and thought that would be the ticket to meeting a tech co-founder but there were 2 problems. We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. The timing just never worked out.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Options and future value are great ‘add ons’ but not for a welfare check salary until ‘this great idea makes it.’ Startups that are aiming to enterprises would do right raising VC to improve their network and therefore have a greater chance to get customers. All what you said is so true. How To Get There. [.]

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