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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. Evangelizing Customer Development in Japan. ————-.

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Baby Boomers May Be Your Biggest Startup Competitors

Startup Professionals Musings

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. While people under 30 have historically jumped from job to job, another striking development has been a deep drop in the incidence of ‘lifetime’ jobs among men over age 50.

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How to Use Frugal Innovation to Grow Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Frugal innovation has its roots in the developing world, where resource constraints have always necessitated a more creative approach to problem-solving. In recent years, however, frugal innovation has also gained traction in developed countries. Mobile banking in developing countries. Examples of successful frugal innovations.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. The post How To Develop Your Customer Retention Strategy appeared first on ConversionXL. featured image source.

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The Search For the Fountain of Youth – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Enterprise

Steve Blank

If you’ve been reading my book on Customer Development and follow my work on Market Type , this type of innovation is best for adding new products to existing markets. In fact the people a large firm needs for this kind of innovation looks suspiciously like startup founders and the processes needed look like Customer Development.

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The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy

ConversionXL

Phase 2 – Develop The Product, Site or New Offers Based On Feedback From Existing Customers. million in 2004 to $6.5 Listen to their feedback & continue to develop the program based on their feedback. The post The 4 Phases For Developing A Customer Retention Strategy appeared first on ConversionXL.

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