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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Progress is the same. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. RSS Feed 614,263+ Subscribers. Using the former can be a competitive advantage for your company, especially when feature sets are roughly the same. October 5, 2012 13:46:19.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

I know that in B2B world you are dead in the water without CRM tool… We are using our own stuff – [link] Reply Josh , on February 28, 2011 at 12:12 am said: Thank you for all the great links, how can i get an invite to quora? Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? But I didn’t limit that comment to B2C software. I would include B2B software for small businesses. Check out my book Subscribe via RSS Thousands of entrepreneurs cant be wrong.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Business Services (B2B). Consumer Services (B2C). . - Passenger Transportation. - Pet Care & Grooming. Social Services. Storage & Warehousing. Travel Agencies. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Domain Name/Basic Site. General Internet. - ISP/ASP Services. Software. - Web Design/Tech Services. MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES. Industrial & Comm.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

This is a clear example where business-to-business (B2B) marketers need to learn from their business-to-consumer (B2C) counterparts. Yet many B2B companies don’t have a clue. Add RSS feed. Source: Common training mistakes Best regards Henry. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. I can remember a number of sources for similar numbers (they may be higher for B2B). Check out my book Like this post? at 6:56 am [.] [.]