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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products. In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said. May 6, 2009 3:03 PM Ivan Acosta-Rubio said. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. September 25, 2009 5:23 PM jchunter said. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Nice talk, thanks for sharing.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

Thank yo u January 3, 2009 4:07 PM BillSeitz said. May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. May 8, 2009 2:39 PM VictusFate said. There is much work that I need to do (the only developer so far) before we have something customers can use.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

CrazyEgg decided to drop its free plan in Jan of 2009 and they haven’t looked back. But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If they do then the free offering is a mistake even in terms of product development.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

Data from the Central Bureau of Statistics show that the number of vacancies in the business sector from December 2009 to December 2010 rose by 57% to 56,800 slots. ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. billion in 2007.