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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! And audIT Sales Presentation System, a SaaS sales presentation system for the IT and MSP industry designed to help communicate technical concepts in simple ways using color and infographics.

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5 Ways to Keep Your Small Business Growing

Up and Running

million in 1999, Zappos is now worth $1 billion. Large corporations such as Oracle, American Express, and Bank of America have also recognized the value of incorporating virtual assistance services in their business development strategies. Then identify the goals and distribute them to the various departments in your company.

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In Spite of Avatar, The Movie Business is Dead

Growthink Blog

What is the future for good-old fashioned DVD rentals and sales? In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. My blog was wiped out.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

During lunch at school, he would have sales calls with customers and say that he had a hard stop at 1pm. To this day they have auctioned off $55m worth of websites with 55% of website sales ending above it’s initial sales price. Pick up a book on sales and negotiating.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

Though it wasn’t intended, the last two articles I wrote on the PlainFlow blog have formed a series: The Modern SaaS Stack and the Unexploited Amount of Data is a walkthrough that shows how companies use Modern SaaS Stack to cover their Marketing/Support/Sales activities from day-0. All manual operations. Eloqua was the proof of that.