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Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

Steve Blank

Do they “get&# Customer Development ? Do They Get Customer Development? For a founder there’s nothing worse than searching for a business model day after day and then sitting in a board meeting with a VC who asks about some detail of year 5 of your revenue plan. Is Your VC Founder Friendly?

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

We are in the midst of great change and many businesses of all shapes and sizes are figuring out how they can implement the right social customer service strategy to meet the ever changing expectations of this increasingly powerful generation. Old school customer service rules haven’t changed.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Heres what it looked like. This is an exciting kind of change, usually.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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How to Name Your Startup

www.rocketwatcher.com

Differentiated – Have a look at other companies in and around the space you will be playing in. advisory board. advisory council. customer development. customer retention. customer service. Ive also held executive positions at Siebel Systems and IBM. Powered by Postrank. Tags advertising.

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