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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. After many sales calls, early prospects showed little rush to buy it! ————-.

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[Review] Marketing To The Ageing Consumer

YoungUpstarts

By 2020, over 40% of the adult population in “ultra-ageing” Japan will be 60 years or older. The answer, according to Dick Stroud and Kim Walker in “ Marketing to the Ageing Consumer: The Secrets to Building an Age-Friendly Business “, is to embrace age-friendly approaches. Conducting Age Friendly Audits.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution. It transformed how we manufactured, well, everything.

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Twitter Link Roundup #89 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! More creative and aggressive ads in the Social Media and Marketing section below. 10 New Creative Guerrilla Marketing Examples – [link]. You don’t know the basics.

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How R&D Investment Grows Your Business

ReadWriteStart

These are primarily China, the US, Japan, and Germany. For those companies operating in a dynamic market driven by user behavior, for example, retail and eCommerce, staying trends-aware equals staying competitive by tailoring their offers to the specific demands and expectations. R&D statistics. Stay trends-aware.

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Twitter Link Roundup #184 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Surprise Is One Of The Most Powerful Small Business Marketing Tools – [link]. Identifying Pain is the First Step in a Sales Process – Here’s How | by Mark Suster – [link].

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Why Every Business Needs To Become A Platform, And How To Do It

YoungUpstarts

By Kurt Bilafer, Global Vice President Sales & Success at WePay. Its cloud platform lets sales and marketing teams connect and share information about customers and prospects, and developers have enriched the value of the platform with a host of applications that integrate to the platform and add to its functionality.

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