Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

Before this occurs, the sales process is a craft or an art - custom-made by the founder or evangelist sales VP. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. 1) Enterprise Sales.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Another great article is from Joel on Software called Duct Tape Programmer.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

The USP that communicates this is: “ConvertKit helps you find your audience, turn them into true fans, and earn a living as a creator with our audience building and email marketing software.”. Advocates are more likely to agree to an interview due to positive sentiment. However, it’s necessary due to the nature of the interaction.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Robert has been working in software since 2005. You can learn more about his approach to developing customer relationships in his new book Cold Calling Early Customers. The most common reason I send it is because I get in a rush due to something exciting about the opportunity. He is a Ph.D. It rarely pans out.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The article and HN are concerned with software.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Dave McClure’s conversion metrics visualize where different conversion optimization opportunities lie—including those for acquisition. Acquisition focuses on how to grab attention in a very crowded content environment. This feedback can improve your acquisition strategies , your value proposition , and your processes on every level.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Acquisition. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

For a software company whose success hinges on whether customers actually use the product , not having those 6 words severs the personal connection with the experience, and makes it feel like you’re using just another piece of software. That being said…. hint: tweet this ).

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ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

For a software company whose success hinges on whether customers actually use the product , not having those 6 words severs the personal connection with the experience, and makes it feel like you’re using just another piece of software. That being said…. hint: tweet this ).

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Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

For a software company whose success hinges on whether customers actually use the product , not having those 6 words severs the personal connection with the experience, and makes it feel like you’re using just another piece of software. That being said…. hint: tweet this ).

Conversion 101

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 101

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

For a software company whose success hinges on whether customers actually use the product , not having those 6 words severs the personal connection with the experience, and makes it feel like you’re using just another piece of software. That being said…. hint: tweet this ).

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Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 84

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

It needs to be more mature, so let’s focus on the small-sized companies where my ideal customer and the people that pull out credit cards is in general the CEO. Jason: And to me, trying to replace someone’s to-do software or their actual organization software? They’re doing something else by that point.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned. How I can find the right investor (software)?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A dramatic example of this is a software development agency offering UX and UI services. It was a tough decision, as we spent a lot of work researching, developing offers, and producing our messaging. You can test an offer, review the feedback, and then pivot or move on quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2014

In today’s digital environment users can interact with a business in many, many different ways due to the large number of devices. This means their behavior, and subsequent digital data, is split into silos (ie different measurement tools) or is inaccurate due to the complexities of measuring users across devices.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Henry , Chris Callahan , Travis Briggs , Nene Kalu , Nikolay Pohodnya , Jamin Wong , Nick Gauthier , Anon User, Andrea Narciso , Steve Shapero , Max Yankov , Christopher Wiley , Bruce Serven and Tony Karrer This question gets asked a lot on Quora, but this one strikes me due to the phrasing. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. The contract work burn out is totally where I’m coming from… chip WAAIIITTT… wasn’t the coding of the first version of Digg outsourced to some guy on Elance? What did you do again? Who knows.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale.

Greece 107

Greece Customer eCommerce Design 107

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale.

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Greece Customer eCommerce Design 98

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

For Acquisition, we’re primarily asking how do first time visitors & potential customers find you? Specifically, how do we get more clicks from the people who might be great customers , but are completely unaware that we exist? Recommended Reading: It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2014

As a follow up to our data driven traffic acquisition article , we’re going to be looking at the roles emotion & data play in “activating” customers and using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a guide to the larger conversation. Strongly Recommended Reading: How to Create Customer Feedback Loops at Scale.

Greece 82

Greece Customer eCommerce Design 82

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can capitalize on new customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. code spaces (svn).

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