thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Slice and dice this landscape according to different features/metrics that you think are important to your CUSTOMER. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

Every new business I know dreams of building momentum in their business, where growth continues to increase, customers become your best advocates, and employee motivation is high. Unfortunately, with limited resources, this isn’t possible, and it frustrates customers and the team. Focus first on finding more of the right customers.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

To uncover audience problems and motivations, call on your brand market research or customer service data. The more you know about your audience, the better you can customize your offer to appeal to the right kind of sponsors. Next, look at any companies or suppliers you already partner with. Asset valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

According to most investors I know, traction is some clear evidence that the “dogs are eating the dog food” – usually meaning that you have at least one customer paying full price for your solution. Another term often mentioned is “momentum,” or growing visibility and advocacy within your customer set.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Do they “get&# Customer Development ? And some larger funds that specialize in later stage deals may have a partner or two who likes to invest at this stage. Do They Get Customer Development? Have they heard about Customer Development ? What metrics are they going to use to measure progress in a board meeting?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Terms like “every customer needs this” and “next generation platform” are far too soft, and should be avoided. Clearly define the customer, channel, and revenue model associated with this solution.

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Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

important planning meetings or partner meetings). Other labels: Consultant – Take bits and pieces, possibly coach Advisor / Advisory Board Member – Often a periodic responsibility and some ad hoc activities. Some weeks might end up being pretty much full-time on a single startup (e.g., But it generally works out well in the end.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate Editor’s note: Since I wrote this, Compare Metrics was renamed Edgecase and was acquired by GroupBy in Canada. And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many. my parents, who took little risk.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. 8 are in R&D, 1 product, 1 customer support, 1 biz dev, 1 marketing and 1 administrative. More customers means more requests: The more customers we get the more requests for features, customization and so on.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. It’s not about you, it’s about your customers.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, October 23, 2009 Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product How much work should you do on a new product before involving customers? But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one.

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San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean 144

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

So it behooves every aspiring entrepreneur to understand their own DNA before picking a project to bet their life on, and to facilitate effective communication with all constituents, including partners, investors, team members and customers.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

But Bazaarvoice actually has a working network effect that benefits all participants: retailers, brands that sell through those retailers, consumers that shop at those brands and retailers, and Bazaarvoice and some of its partners. I wrote about this in detail in my first annual shareholders letter after Bazaarvoice became a public company.

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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

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Codeacademy.

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