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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

At times I’ll do what I consider an extension of teaching; a two-day Customer Discovery/Validation intensive session with a large corporation serious about Customer Development at my ranch on the California Coast. We used what they learned to plan their next steps for additional Discovery, and ultimately Customer Validation.

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The Truth About the Scooter Economy?—?An Insider’s Perspective

Both Sides of the Table

An Insider’s Perspective “Bird Zero” that are custom designed by the company There is a story arc of the electric scooter market that took the world by storm in 2018, was second-guessed late in the year and has quietly re-emerged as a powerful force of growth where few really appreciate the speed and scale of what has happened.

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[Interview] Benjamin Yee of EMERGE App

YoungUpstarts

Aggressive expansion plans will no doubt see Ben explore off-the-beaten-track towns in Europe and South America in the near future. I started with a custom t-shirt printing company, branched out into a creative agency and then spun out a software solution from my t-shirt business that you see today as EMERGE App.

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What To Know About Accepting International Payments

YoungUpstarts

When you expand your eCommerce business, and you target other countries, regardless of what it is you sell, you’re giving yourself the opportunity to drive revenue in new markets. International Customer Preferences. This is also charged by Canada, China, India, Africa and the majority of South America. Localized Shops.

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DesignCrowd takes on 99Designs in the US, seeking to grow its crowdsourced design business tenfold

The Next Web

In particular, we’ve developed a crowdsourcing model that is fairer and more lucrative for designers and, in turn, better for customers. The country also provides DesignCrowd with its largest source of designers, and revenues there have doubled in the last six months alone.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Colombia, South America. You have been at five startups, you had an exit at your last company where you were the Chief Revenue Officer. And if you don’t have what it takes to accept that and keep coming back and keep coming back and keep coming back, how the hell are you going to get customers?

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

I did a keynote on innovation hubs at the newly created DoFuture program , spoke at Santiago’s Startup Weekend on Customer and Agile Development, and at a Conference in Patagonia supported by the Ministry of Economy’s Innovation Division. Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America.