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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. No lying 3 Pitch the technical puzzles attempting to solve 99.9999% of non-technical founders/co-founders get 2 out of 3 of these points wrong.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. questions and answers for non-programmers. aggregation. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy.