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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Unless you are in an Existing Market, (making a better version of what customers are already buying) you’ll find that your hypothesis about what features customers want had no relationship to what they really wanted. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.]

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Referrals: Worth Their Weight In Gold or Passing The Buck.

Tim Keane

 Because I value the relationship with people I know, I most probably will add some color to the "why" and explain what I think the benefit might be.   Because I value the relationship with people I know, I most probably will add some color to the "why" and explain what I think the benefit might be. 

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

While I completely agree with this notion, the signals might be more important (when you might fire them): 1) You don’t have a bi-directional (respectful) relationship. 3) Managing the relationship is more consumptive than the rewards. 2) They don’t care about your profitibility and ultimately, your staying power.

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Seven Steps to Better Board Recruitment

Board Effect

Guidestar suggests organizing board members by categories that include industry, age, ethnicity, affiliations and anticipated roles. For instance, experience in sales can be applied to fundraising, relationship-building, advocacy and more. Know what your board members bring to the table by creating a matrix of their strengths.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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36 Stocking Stuffer Ideas For Your Little Entrepreneur

Up and Running

Instead of just listing off the talents you’ll need to instill in your children to encourage them to become the good entrepreneurs of the future, I’ve sourced a number of gift ideas that fit within these categories. 1 toy to teach relationship building: Durable Walkie Talkie for Kids: .

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Picking Ventures: Part 2 - Startups and angels: Along the way to.

Tim Keane

Categories. Investor Relationships. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Picking Ventures: Part 1 | Main. | » September 28, 2011. Picking Ventures: Part 2. Sometimes the dog really does eat it.  And sometimes it's a big dog. Enter your Email.