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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

An untapped pool of demand is waiting for this to come along now, right? Steve Hoffman (07:08): Your, your most important task at the beginning is to be a demand hunter to go into the market. If we're looking at their concept, their investor deck, we're saying, where is that demand? Show us that demand. You got something.

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Your B2B Demand Generation Funnel: How to Create One and Mistakes to Avoid

ConversionXL

This value-based model bringing all the right customers to their yard is called demand generation. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a demand generation funnel that fuels the pipeline, shortens the sale cycle, and generates revenue. Like SEO, demand generation is a long game. Demand generation is no exception.

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The Lean Startup Book is here

Startup Lessons Learned

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

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? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. 5% I believe.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? Someone who is egotistical enough to call themselves a rockstar, yet humble enough not to want 99% of the equity?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development. Twitter is an excellent distribution channel for us. (B)

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted. Same with Pets.com?