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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. After waiting for a week or so for the book to make it to Japan, I was very much shocked how impressed I was by the Customer Development Model detailed in the book. Evangelizing Customer Development in Japan.

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Why You Should Be Doing Product Discovery

YoungUpstarts

by Nick Frandsen, co-founder and managing partner at Dovetail. Like most entrepreneurs, you’ve probably mapped out the business plan, dreamed up the layout and you’re already snapping up domains and emailing developers with your plan. Why is product discovery important? Create a visual representation of your product.

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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

For entrepreneurs, effective networking is required to find investors, partners, and customers. Product development. For a great idea person, the product details keep changing for the better, but nothing ever gets finished. Here are a few: Business networking. Investor negotiations. Time management. Effective marketing.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Just make sure you can fill in all the details.

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What to Look For in a Business Partner

Up and Running

When I was going through the co-founder “dating” process, I’d found a potential partner through my network who seemed to be perfect. Though my potential partner was performing well by the numbers, my own productivity was dwindling as I spent more and more time on managing our relationship.

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