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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? This would seem to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

It’s Not A Conversion Problem, It’s A Customer Development Problem. Think About Customer Experience, Not Just Conversion Optimization. Affiliates. It’s Not About Technology or Tools. Basically, any technology at his disposal to connect with the people who will best benefit the business.

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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

There’s so much more that customer advocates can do to grow your business. And with advances in technology and social media — along with the current boom in personal and professional communities — those who adopt customer reference programs must think much more broadly about the forms advocacy can take.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Broadly speaking, this action plan is going to be broken up into three sections: the testing plan, the execution plan, and the review section. And, the very last section— the review section — is really just a list of milestones you create that prompt you to review and revise your plan. Your forecast would have been for nothing.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. The rent was due. We’re not actively marketing the product anymore, but it’s still on Clickbank and makes us money as affiliates pick it up. Listen to your customers.

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