Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2010

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The market is changing so fast these days, and if you are not planning a solution today for tomorrow’s customers, you may be setting yourself up for failure and don’t even realize it. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Ask the right questions, and listen to your customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Please watch the video, review the slides and blog posts]. Put yourself in the shoes of Mark Liu, chairman of TSMC: Do you view China as more of a competitor or customer – and why? Class 4 Required Readings: Silicon Valley, the Military, and the Journey to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Optional Rebecca S. Why or why not?

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2015

We were not any different, we had corporate bylaws, which my partner and I both reviewed and signed. When reviewing the bylaws, I should have corrected them so that the majority partner did not have any more authority in action than any other partner. Hindsight being 20/20, we should have treated these projects like any other customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Member of the Advisory Board. Manage customer service. They probably have arbitrated differences many times before in their lives, and know how important it is to remain calm and soft-spoken in the face of emotional customers and processes that are not working. Software and hardware development architects and designers.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 11, 2019

For any business, there is a need to split their focus on two particular aims: Bringing new customers into the business. Retaining established customers. Invite Loyal Customers to Join an Advisory Board. Go Above and Beyond to Reward Loyalty.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

They identify and support high impact startups that need access to customers, mentors, training, and capital. Startups struggle to establish their value proposition , create and launch their pilots, and get first customers. Customer, staff, and operation growth present new challenges and require even greater amounts of capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2015

Businesses require an equally elegant business model, with the right price, messaging and delivery channel to the right target customers to keep the dream alive and growing. Defining the right business model requires the same diligence as designing the right product, but the approach and skills required are different.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

She is the global customer growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Growth IQ. Key Takeaway: Prioritizing the employee experience alongside customer experience drives business success. 06:25] In most companies, the customer interacts with their employees. [06:25]

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

But over time code/hardware written/built to validate hypotheses and find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling. You fix technical debt by refactoring , going into the existing code and “cleaning it up” by restructuring it. Organizational debt was coming due. the company had.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. version, and talking to an advisory board and seed round investors already.” Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an entrepreneur, joining organizations or networking groups can allow you to connect with like-minded people who can provide you with information and support, and refer customers to you. Thanks to Alex Contes, Review Grower ! #3- In the formative days of my rental business, I had the opportunity to join the board of ILEA.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate But I would argue in B2B SaaS (Software as a Service) businesses if you really know the market?—?and In other words, as I write in my Lucky7 post on capital efficiency , you may be able to make your businesses mostly customer funded.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2013

Most small businesses will tell you their new customers come through word of mouth, but very few can tell you how those referrals happen or where they come from. Have you asked your happy customers to tell their friends about you? Send follow-up emails that include a request for a review. Remind them on their way out the door.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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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. Customer service. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! VC & Startup Resources.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

You want to review all the different components of your business model. Up-to-code kitchen with three-compartment sink and grease trap. What are the details of your ownership structure, board of directors, investor list, partners, and so on? Software costs. What sets you apart? How will you grow? Cribs (for infant room).

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Their success is about execution in sales, services, and feature parity … and then eventually superiority (again, due to that single platform to rapidly evolve on advantage). For example, the network effects between the Associated Press and their many newsroom customers have existed for a long time prior to us coming along.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

data.world and our modern catalog for data and analysis is a new category of software, much like Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics created new categories before, and the brilliant book Play Bigger helped us find it. both in the “picks and shovels” space of digital retail with very compelling software solutions. all in real-time?—?and

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. And please tweet your thanks to Software Promotions for sponsoring Smart Bear Live! Dan: Member Desk is a hosted membership site software. In this episode, we share three more interviews from our AZ Disruptors meeting last fall.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Check out my list of featured essays Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps View Comments Answer this question honestly… When’s the last time you spoke to your target customer? It’s a good idea to balance out the data aspects, particularly if you are not your target customer. @AndrewChen New here?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Due to an interaction effect between your hardware, solar flares, and quantum flux, this virus will crash your computer and erase your hard drive sometime soon. It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. How upset will those customers be?

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It’s not about you, it’s about your customers. At Fab we have been focused from day 1 on making our customers smile. To this day, not a single pixel gets on our website or apps without my input, review, and approval. Likewise, not a single designer gets approved to sell on Fab without Bradford’s input, review, and approval.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Disclose intentions early It’s not a big deal if you’re doing diligence on a competitor. If you are doing diligence on a competitor, or even if you’re just talking to a competitor, disclose it early in the conversation so that the founder understands the reason for your interest. On the commitment front, speed matters as well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Make sure you build your business to meet the needs of a specific niche to avoid overspending and underwhelming all of your potential customers. That passion will come through in everything you do, and your customers will appreciate and embrace the authenticity of your brand. NOT SATISFIED WITH THE GROWTH OF YOUR BUSINESS?

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

For example, they introduce the company to a key customer or investor. Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. My code base can be changed or refactored to support major changes to the feature.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Make sure you set up your real estate business to meet the needs of a specific niche to avoid overspending and underwhelming all of your potential customers. That passion will come through in everything you do, and your customers will appreciate and embrace the authenticity of your brand. NOT SATISFIED WITH THE GROWTH OF YOUR BUSINESS?

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