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Seven Things Your Customers Can Do Better Than You

YoungUpstarts

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Companies often say that ‘customers are our best assets. But most of the value of these assets lies fallow.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ).

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. aggregation. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro. Part 2- 3 tools for startups. Part 3- Lean Cust. Part 4- Closing.