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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Do some Customer Development instead.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

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He says, “Spending a few thousand on a domain could make a big difference long term, and give you the credibility and advantage over the competition, especially in the very beginning and early stages of the business.”. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Do your own PR.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

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Salesforce recently conducted research , which found nearly 25 per cent of millennials expect to get a response within 10 minutes of reaching out for customer service via social media and nearly one quarter will boycott a company after one bad experience. According to our research, millennials ardently avoid calling customer service.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] You just get successful. No one has to tell them to do that.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

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After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.