Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. Help Engineering understand customer needs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Five Easy Pieces – The Marketing Mission After a few months of talking to customers , talking to our channel and working with sales we defined the marketing Mission (our job) was to: Help Sales deliver $25 million in sales with a 45% gross margin. The same was true for PR. Two paragraphs, Five bullets. It didn’t take more.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

But name your startup John Smith and Associates and you’ve got yourself a problem. I’ve never named a company but I’ve named products a handful of times with decidedly mixed results (See my post on product naming here ). 7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. Name ( required ).

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