Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2013

Andy Grove of Intel fame started making memory chips, but switched to microprocessors with a vengeance when Japan totally undercut his pricing. Think of the risk taken by CEO Todd Davis of LifeLock when he posted his Social Security number online, to assure customers the he could protect them from identity theft. The rest is history.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2022

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Finnish telecommunications giant, for example, partnered the country’s largest taxi operator ComfortDelGro to offer an NFC-enabled option to consumers to book a cab. By simply tapping their NFC-enabled phone at over 400 locations across Singapore, consumers can initiate a booking via SMS.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2016

Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality. Customer intimacy. How do we help them acquire and retain more customers?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Business units are demanding mobile apps to help them win, serve and retain customers, simply because that’s what customers expect to see, thanks to the pervasiveness of the Apple and Google app stores. It is that seamless mobile experience that employees, partners and customers expect when they access your company’s mobile apps.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This move effectively limits China’s access to a critical resource- the custom chips that are vital to products that fuel China’s domestic and export growth. Partner nations could see their own militaries and homelands subjected to the same threats and challenges that the United States would face. Forward-Deployed Forces : The U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Andy Grove of Intel fame started making memory chips, but switched to microprocessors with a vengeance when Japan totally undercut his pricing. Think of the risk taken by CEO Todd Davis of LifeLock when he posted his Social Security number online, to assure customers the he could protect them from identity theft. The rest is history.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It drives media attention and fosters customer retention rate, which is why most companies strive to have it in their mission statement. It seeks to solve customer problems in a better and modern way and helping such companies edge the competition. Innovative is a word often used to describe successful companies. 5- Shiseido.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. Perhaps coincidentally, it was a service that existing SingTel customers were looking for.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Speakers and partners of Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, and other world-leading companies came up with the services and products which will support the new technology and are to be released in 2019. Also, customers are interested in more immersive services and products based on new VR and AR headsets that will be improved by way of technology.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2013

Government funding of research started in World War II driven by the needs of the military for weapon systems to defeat Germany and Japan. There they would be tasked to develop military weapons systems and solve military problems to defeat Germany and Japan. The weapons were then manufactured in volume by U.S. corporations.).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 15, 2021

Bespoke by definition means made for a particular user/customer. 9- My partner screamed it out. My partner and I were in college on Long Island and that’s also where we grew up. One night we were playing Call of Duty and my partner screamed out INCOMING TOMAHAWK, and something just clicked. 19- As suggested by a customer.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2013

These customers also get a special and exclusive value-added feature: Evernote video notes, where users can shoot and upload videos quickly and easily as notes in their notebooks. It is uncertain how many existing StarHub customers already use Evernote – it has a total mobile customer base of around 2.25

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Let’s begin with the four customer currencies. And this is true outside of games.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2015

The idea of mobile application development for the enterprise is rapidly catching on, as mobile apps are now an obvious (and critical) path to both generate revenue and improve the customer experience for today’s modern businesses. Organizations build mobile apps for three main groups of people: customers, partners and employees.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As consumer adoption and preference for digital shopping grows, so does the marketplace’s demand for an increasingly seamless, customized, and smooth shopping process. . The more skillful a company becomes in applying data to grow customer knowledge and intimacy, the greater the returns.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

Any Digital Marketer living in today’s age will tell you that Content Marketing is a must, for not only promoting your brand to new prospects, but also to maintain a relationship with your existing customers. distributes sponsored content across the web, on top publisher sites the platform has partnered with. Content.ad. StackAdapt.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 8, 2022

Taking your business overseas, to a country like Japan, for instance, is the difficult version of establishing a business in your country—a place you are very familiar with. In most foreign markets, customers say they are more inclined to do business when the products are offered in their language.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2016

Because removing barriers for your customers is a hallmark of customer intimacy, and customer intimacy is one of three value disciplines that every company must master to dominate their market. A customer-intimate company has to get to know its customer at a deeper level with every interaction. Come fund me.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. Listen to my entire chat with John.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

Axel Saleck, Vice President, Global SAP Co-Innovation Labs Network, and Bronwyn Hastings, Senior Vice President, SAP Ecosystem and Channels, Asia Pacific Japan. SAP is an open innovator and our commitment to expand partner innovation is evidenced by the establishment of the fourth Co-Innovation Lab in Asia Pacific Japan.”

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Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

During the test period, the candidates work out of the coworking offices of Transformify ‘s partners. All data privacy, time management, productivity and project management requirements of the clients are discussed, and custom solutions are provided on an individual basis. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

However, aside from the geographic challenges, pursuing new business opportunities in Asia takes careful planning, a clear understanding of cultural nuances and an experienced and engaged partner to help you establish a presence on the ground. Here are five tips to help any company get it right: #1: Timing is crucial. 3: Know what to expect.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

And, of course, if you start counting non-US domestic hotbeds, you’ve got thriving mobile scenes in Western and Eastern EU countries, China, Japan, India, Korea, Brazil, etc. As Kleiner partner Mary Meeker so nicely summed up recently , mobile is the “it&# Internet trend of the moment. Introduce new services.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

The “benevolent” part means always putting the entity, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. You certainly don’t want to alienate potential investors, customers, or employees by harassing them for a more favorable answer. Always look at a new idea through your customers’ eyes.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 15, 2012

What Being an Angry Customer Has Taught Me About Great Customer Service – [link]. What Being an Angry Customer Has Taught Me About Great Customer Service – [link]. When do I *stop* doing customer interviews and start writing code? Will India Ever Really Be America’s Partner? – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. billion) globally from January through November 2017, according to customs data. During his campaign, Trump labelled both China and Japan as “currency manipulators” and threatened a trade war over what he called their unfair trading practices.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Amazing chefs and experts who want to share their cultural and culinary traditions with curious people – even if they can’t hop on a flight and visit Japan this year or Italy next year. In business, we negotiate with external vendors, suppliers and partners. Thanks to Jenn Nicken, The Chef & The Dish ! #7-

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 7, 2011

However, with my handbag company charm and luck , to grow our business we realized we needed to find sales partners to handle our sales. Business Mindset & Goals With looking for salespeople in the fashion industry, our mindset was that we were looking for partners. One of my personal goals has always been retention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Recognizing this is as much about culture as about language, ensures an understanding of regional motivators, cultural taboos and local customs – so that your solutions are ideally designed and marketed to deliver value that has genuine local relevance. And aging populations in Europe and Japan will join the retiring baby boomers in the U.S.

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