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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. I wanted this book not only as my “secret weapon,” but also for all entrepreneurs in Japan. The Crater in my rookie days.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Metal Gear Rising's Blade Wolf DLC out in Japan May 9. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. More in Gadgets.

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[Singapore] Shopify Partners SingTel To Grow Presence In Singapore

YoungUpstarts

Online commerce has seen explosive growth in the region – data from PayPal, from example, revealed that merchants based in Singapore saw an increase of online export sales on average by 68% to China, 55% to Hong Kong, 22% to Japan and 20% to Australia in 2012 alone. “So, in 2005, we launched our very own platform.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

As a business founded in Japan who specializes in Japanese curry, Go! It was 2004 and my wife and I were in New York. In the end, choosing Best Company was easy, because our intended target audience has always been those searching online for the best company and we just want to help in that search. Photo Duale: Tomoko Omori.

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Lighten Up Already :: Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape.

Duct Tape Marketing

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.