Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

But he was getting uneasy that as his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department seemed to be rapidly declining. It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. No one had differentiated a startup job description from a large company job. We hired union laborers to do that.

Startup 328

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2013

You want the starting market you have chosen to be narrow enough to allow your product/service to be easily differentiated, but not so narrow that there isn’t enough market for the business to be viable. Can a competitor’s product name be easily substituted for my company’s brand? Get the right team in place.

Georgia 238

Georgia Sales Cycle Atlanta Business Model 238

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

An understanding of product-market fit? What’s your differential business strategy? Your differential growth strategy? Your differential product? Plus, it goes in both directions — employees can reference check prospective managers, and managers can reference check prospective employees.

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