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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. Energize your online and social media marketing. Companies often say that ‘customers are our best assets.

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

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. FirstMark Platform’s 100+ annual events and 50,000+ members are also extensive customer opportunities for their portcos.

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

Steve Blank

The Chinese Social Media Landscape diagram below from Resonance does a great job of illustrating the players in the Chinese market. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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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. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 6) Negotiate deal.