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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” They’re putting money into web services/business – most without early revenue. End of theory.&#

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Finding The High Converting PPC Keywords That Are Right Under Your Nose

ConversionXL

Not just relevance in the sense of improving Quality Score or Ad Rank, but improving the relevance of your search marketing keywords and ads to your potential customers. This ad is helping the website by providing a contact phone (especially good for mobile searches), and sitelinks. Get Focused on Location.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

As Marketing and Sales flail around in search of a sustainable market, the company is burning through its most precious asset—cash. Was the sales revenue model based on actually testing the hypotheses outside the building? All of this is usually a bad idea. No one asks, “Why are we executing like we know what we are doing?

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

It would have been easy to explain the difference by changes in the 2010/2011 revenue growth projections but unfortunately that is not the case. revenues while large caps are trading at 6.4x. Add RSS feed. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Wednesday, February 23, 2011. SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

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Seven Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Website

crowdSPRING Blog

According to the search giant, over 48% of all users started their search for something on a mobile device. This fact is in itself not a reason to be alarmed until you take into consideration Google penalizes sites that are not mobile-friendly in its search results. Need another reason to go responsive? Think about Google.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. Simply fill out a profile about yourself and your goals, and then search the mentor profiles that match your needs.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

But in the real world, when you get to business numbers, sales are not accounts receivable and revenue isn’t income and people who read financial projections need to know that an apple is an apple, and not an orange. . Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. Subscribe by email. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7.

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