Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Smart potential customers only visit and buy from credible and memorable websites. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Put yourself on the site. People buy from people.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

While the last post was titled “ You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job “, this post should probably be titled, “You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When You Offer Them a Job.&# Context here.)

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

human engineering VC Cafe Photo credit: By imaginedhorizons (Flickr). ” Question: What is Human Engineering? 2) Manage your skills - building on self-awareness, focus on doing what you’re good at, but invest in developing the rest. Wikipedia ). Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” This conversation will be a great opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to learn more about implementing Lean Startup ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2024

Businesses and devs can easily incorporate tokenized US stocks and ETFs into their offerings with Dinari’s REST API or smart contracts. Shippo announced Addresses API , a fast reliable solution for validating, parsing and storing customer addresses. Qvin ’s Q-Pad received FDA Approval as a diagnostic menstrual pad.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer? office, right in the heart of MIT.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

In these modern times, one of the most efficient ways to reach out to potential customers is through social media. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have a wide reach, and if you can use them effectively, you can significantly increase your customer base. Leverage Social Media Platforms. Develop a Strong Online Presence.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2020

The classes are built on the Lean Startup methodology: Customer Discovery, Agile Engineering and the Business/Mission Model Canvas. So how do our students get out of the building to talk to customers to do Customer Discovery when they can’t get out of the building? Reminder: What’s the Point of Talking to Customers ?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

Developers need to work with engineers, sales and marketing staff, customer support staff, and even CEOs and other executives so they need to understand far more than how to code a website. If you’re thinking of getting into web development, prepare yourself to spend the rest of your career learning and growing.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2018

At this stage of a company, all employees of the company need to proactively focus on customers and their receptivity to the offering. For these startup companies, the client success team does not falter as the company grows because they adjust to the changing expectations of customers as the request volumes grow. The Founding stage.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2020

The evolution has transformed the face of marketing that we know of, which seems to be customer centric, where every company and brand have indulged themselves in this rat race of providing consumers with best in class experience. Get the hold on difference interfaces, as customer varies.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Follow-up for customer satisfaction. Don’t forget basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so search engines improve your ranking. Put yourself on the site.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. Activities” is where you define the most important things your company must do to make the rest of your business model work. ——-. Are We Missing A Founder?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. This is sometimes business-model dependent, e.g.: Product/Design/Engineering headcount – need to bring on a full-time PM and/or designer with X product milestones; rough estimates of engineering headcount by stage. Now it’s time to discuss the “where”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

Intellectual Property 219

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2014

Unfortunately, for most solution markets, early adopters represent only 10 to 15 percent of the total opportunity, so it’s easy to get mislead on the real requirements of mainstream customers. The good news is that early adopters are never reluctant to sign up as beta customers and will provide you early feedback on product quality.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2019

Customers enjoy online shopping; their demands create enormous opportunities for eCommerce company’s growth. WordPress themes vs custom solution. However, if you strive to highlight your exceptionalism, develop a unique design and cater to customers’ needs in a better way, a simple theme won’t be enough for you. Hourly rate.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

When we graduate, we don’t really know what a “good customer” is. Solve the rest later. For Alex at Origin , a scheduling and booking platform for outdoor guiding companies, he soon realized that for the company to grow exponentially, they’d need thousands of customers because of how fragmented the market is. But he has passion.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). These people can become toxic to the rest of the team.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

As a result, businesses in this field should leverage technology to provide interactive, easy-to-understand educational content that can help customers make health-related decisions and maintain healthy habits. Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. In reality this is a fools choice.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2019

Through digital marketing, vital information about the goods and services of a company can reach millions of target audiences which can then turn into potential customers. Among these digital marketing techniques, SEO stands above the rest. With SEO, you can create and increase brand awareness.

Internet 113

Internet PPC Social Media SEO 113

YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). These people can become toxic to the rest of the team.

Framework 113

Framework Architecture Cleveland Early Stage 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Here’s how I learned why they were critical to successful customer development. I was an aggressive, young and a very tactical VP of marketing at Ardent , a supercomputer company – who really hadn’t a clue about the relationship between profound beliefs, customer discovery and strategy. These strategies are mutually exclusive.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. Customer skills for digital transformation champions. Customer skills for digital transformation champions.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

After all, it is your website that serves as your virtual shop window, allowing you to show off your products and services in the best light possible to new and potential customers. It is within the margins of your website that you can help customers to understand your brand’s beginnings, narrative and personality.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In fact, 4 out of 5 consumers use search engines to get information about businesses, products, and services. A word-of-mouth referral alone is not enough anymore to land a customer; your business needs an online profile. in your address, for example) can completely misdirect customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. impactful work (we point to specific features that are being used by 100s of customers) and 3. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. Be Specific.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Commit to a major customer. It always reduces risk to plan your business first.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. billion U.S.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine rankings, no efficient advertising, no incredible executive team, no NPS, no strategy. The thing where, if you’re extraordinarily good at it, customers will overlook everything else. How do the successful startups rise above all that?

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