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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. Let me give one small example.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ?

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

But the thing I am most proud of about Rob is that he has taken a company with a uniquely talented founder & CTO – Nick Halstead – and managed to build a very tight working relationship with Nick where we drive world-class product development without having the usual founder / CEO conflicts. Between Board Meetings.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). They need to establish a Minimum Viable Category (MVC), develop thought leadership concepts, and create an “epic story” talk track that is meant to compel the world to use the startup’s product or service.

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The Traction Gap Framework: Four Pillars Of Startup Success

YoungUpstarts

A well-developed product architecture helps a startup to achieve rapid market/product fit by successfully appealing to customers (users). They need to establish a Minimum Viable Category (MVC), develop thought leadership concepts, and create an “epic story” talk track that is meant to compel the world to use the startup’s product or service.

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8 Business Execution Strategies That Lead To Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Define success metrics, and measure progress regularly. Initially, you may be able to do everything in your startup, including product development, marketing, and shipping orders. As you move from development to rollout, a team effort is required, including marketing, sales, funding, and customers.

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How Employee Experience Shapes Brand Perception

Duct Tape Marketing

They were having their own UI designers, developers, they were getting their own infrastructure. So if your frontline team doesn't have what they need, it shows itself in those experience metrics on the customer side. Do you have an employee advisory board? And by the way, this wasn't about like online marketing, right?