mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Throw in a few YouTube videos and a Twitter account, and you’re golden — or so we are led to believe. For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. We also provide custom campaigns for companies looking for something a bit more expansive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). What’s happening?

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Videos/presentations. Customer service. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Google Custom Search Engine.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. Customer data is normally partitioned according to customer id. What about log data about customers? For example, lets say you have data about customers. For example, consider this simple scheme. Easy to understand.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Talk to your customers. Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

For those who want to tap into this Millennial potential, there are four keys to building and retaining those customers: authenticity, digital messages, multi-channel marketing, and incentives and rewards. These traits can be referred to in a broader category deemed “Customer Service/Relations.”. Authenticity.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). Thus had to spend hard cash building a half way completed demo outsourced to India. link] SEO India Wonderful!! So, the guy is BS-ting you, people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

To wit: achieving product/market fit , getting customer validation , making something people want , things that matter , and of course the many excellent books on the topic, of which Ill mention just two of the best, Crossing the Chasm and The Innovators Dilemma. Is a market a set of paying customers? Tough sell.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I want to know how many customers exist out there who would be likely buyers of the O-Port products, at what price-point, and what does that add up to? David should use his credibility in capacity planning and convince a dozen customers to pay him consulting fees to solve their capacity planning problems. 30 million market?

Marketing 52

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

My professional career spans three countries: India, Saudi Arabia and the United States. My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions. Going through all of the above, I've developed an overall macro-philosophy that guides my career choices.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

It saddens me deeply that they are not being able to take full advantage of all the new product, marketing, customer relationship opportunities in front of them. For their existing customers they could mine the CRM/ERP systems and the letter would switch from Dear Sir/Madam to Dear Stephanie Byrd. RM+RP+RT is finally possible.

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