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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

Timetables, financial numbers, and other pertinent information should be communicated to the implicated parties. In business, no-one likes surprises, so keeping everyone informed of the facts and imparting recovery strategies will help mitigate the loss. sales to product development), the problems will continue to exist.

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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. More information comes out.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Organization, Communities or Associations they Belong to That Help Support Their Business

Hearpreneur

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. Many of the top affiliate and influencer marketers participate in this community so the information that they share from surveys is very relevant.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

There is no possible way you can garner enough information to pivot based on one customers feedback or even 20. Finally, I suggested that he find someone he respects on his advisory board, who he was comfortable brainstorming with and would tell him when he has a bad idea. ” Sit on it for awhile. 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. Your blogs are full of rational thoughts and has nuggets of information. Looking forward to more of these. Abbas February 22, 2009 3:33 PM cwillu said.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps

andrewchenblog.com

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. I will do as many of these calls as makes sense until I am hearing the same information over and over. our product? a competitor's product?