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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or variations thereof.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

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Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

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This enables you to truly understand your customers and to help them. Know your talents, develop a skill people value. I had been doing B2B sales for several years, and I was really good at it. Also, anyone who has worked in a B2B service business knows that it requires quite a lot of hand holding. That was 2008.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. which defeats the whole purpose of getting face time for Customer Development!

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How to Name Your Startup

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April 30, 2010. |. April Dunford says: April 30, 2010 at 11:14 am. Vandana Puranik says: April 30, 2010 at 11:15 am. says: April 30, 2010 at 11:15 am. JoeyDee says: April 30, 2010 at 11:38 am. aprildunford says: April 30, 2010 at 11:39 am. Tim Johnson says: April 30, 2010 at 1:49 pm. Social Media.

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