Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened. Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? Not at all. Why scooters? Can’t people just ride bikes or walk?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2012

Many of Gnip ‘s customers and partners are in the bay area and they have decided to begin adding people in San Francisco to better support those clients. They’ve just posted their first position in San Francisco to help manage and grow existing customers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. That revenue is in on 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting our second meetup in San Francisco, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:30pm on Data-Driven Marketplaces. How to seed supply in a data-driven manner and plan your geographical or new customer segment expansion. How to optimize (on-demand) logistics, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So mostly we just had to listen to customer feedback from founders, VCs and LPs. So There You Have It We have an amazing team including our newest Partner, Aditi Maliwal, who runs our FinTech investment practice and is based in San Francisco. Kara is a natural leader and loves taking ownership of tasks and over-performing.

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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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That means first conducting research to learn the truth about a company’s competitors and customers. Develop a Map to New Customers. It’s only natural—if a business is winning sales, and even growing on a regular basis—they think they understand what their customers value. Content is digital fuel.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 28, 2020

When Netflix began streaming media directly to customers in 2007, it changed the face of home entertainment. When Uber coordinated its first ride in San Francisco in 2010, it changed the transportation game. If your community has robust job growth and economic development, then you’ll have more potential customers to serve.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2019

The company this past fall opened IdentityMind Global , a store where customers can purchase compliance technology and integrate it into their existing workflows. Named to the Forbes’ “30 Under 30” and Debrett’s 500 lists, Johnston lives in San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

San Francisco startup Plenty’s innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) has attracted $200 million in funding from SoftBank Vision Fund, the world’s biggest tech fund. Customer Service. One of the most widespread applications of AI is customer service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Enter Jims post.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Howard Street in San Francisco on Tuesday morning looked different. The tarmac was visible and cars were actually using it. Outside Moscone Center, a local folk rock band, Blind Willies was playing. Excellent, but nowhere near the brand recognition of. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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Guy Nirpaz

JANUARY 18, 2015

The idea behind the first Customer Success Summit came as a result of many conversation with new customers who’ve asked us to connect with their peer group. As Customer Success is relatively new and there is not a lot of known best practices, customer success practitioners wanted to exchange notes with one another.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Stefano Bernardi, who is on the founding team of Betable , where he heads Customer Development. Coming to San Francisco to network, meet interesting people, get advice on your company is a great learning opportunity and the cost is well worth it. Fundraising.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) Conference & Expo will return for its third edition this year, taking place April 27-29 at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For startups targeting both growth and exposure — leveraging technology, and deploying it to streamline your customers ‘ workflow is really the best solution. Grand Rounds , a San Francisco based startup, acts like a healthcare assistant that provides employees access to high-quality medical care within their insurance network.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. Second, it allows you to reach out to new potential customers. Setting up a Page is simple and free, and it looks great on both desktop and mobile so that you can meet customers on any device.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a great tool for companies to introduce a new brand and test product-market-fit in an early, low-risk environment; cultivate a group of early adopters who become product evangelists and provide crucial feedback and support; get early customer feedback on product concept and design and build brand equity for a product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. I'm the founder and executive director of SF New Deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs.

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SiliconHills

JULY 17, 2021

The company, based in San Francisco, is not moving to Austin. Instead, it is opening a new San Francisco headquarters in August. Bright Machines is opening a customer support center and robotics lab in Austin. Bright Machines announced plans to open a new regional office and lab in Austin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. says Rachleff.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 19, 2022

Stephanie Marrus – University of California – San Francisco. Jim Hornthal – UC Berkeley. Todd Morrill – UC Berkeley. Todd Basche – BMNT. Dave Chapman – University College London. Sid Saleh – Colorado School of Mines. Joe Smith – Department of Defense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. We finally settled on a $1.99 Setup a simple website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

At our core, local governments are public service agencies, which means that we should be focused on maximizing value for our “customers” (AKA residents). I’ve always been intrigued by the concepts of design thinking and customer empathy and how those concepts might intersect with local government.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 21, 2013

This weekend I had the very good fortune to attend Ryan Deis and Perry Belcher's Traffic and Conversion Summit in downtown San Francisco. You see, while these expectations have driven up customer acquisition costs, they have also driven the cost of a competitor acquiring that customer away from you even higher.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Outbox, a self-described “beautiful inbox for your postal mail,” is expanding beyond its initial pilot in Austin, where for the past year and a half more than 500 customers have enjoyed the service. The post Outbox Mail of Austin Makes Huge Strides, Launches in San Francisco appeared first on SiliconHills. As of this [.]

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