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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. He should make sure that there aren’t other parts of the business model (revenue model, pricing, partners, channel, etc.) Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

Salesforce recently conducted research , which found nearly 25 per cent of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes of reaching out for customer service via social media and nearly one quarter will boycott a company after one bad experience. According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

That was the message from the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Entrepreneurs are Everywhere airs Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern on Sirius XM Channel 111. What do you do with an advisory board?” Dave Lerner.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

13, at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 to hear these upcoming guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : George Zimmer , founder of Men’s Wearhouse and now founder, chairman and CEO of Generation Tux ; and Scott Adams , creator of Dilbert. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

13, at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111 to hear these upcoming guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere : George Zimmer , founder of Men’s Wearhouse and now founder, chairman and CEO of Generation Tux ; and Scott Adams , creator of Dilbert. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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