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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! while if it’s (b) we can shovel money out the door creating demand and sell into it. By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog).

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. AfterDownload: Quite often depending on demand. l launched Afterdownload in February this year after doing some investments on my own.