Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

In the early 2000s, digital design and development freelancers were sort after – I was fresh out of University (having completed a degree in Media Arts) and was hungry for work. 9- Providing Legitimate B2B Customer Data in the Era of Mistrust. Thus, I started my B2B customer data-mining firm. Photo Credit: William Cannon.

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VC Cafe

JULY 26, 2020

.” Steve Blank, “Is the lean startup dead?” ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Most principles of Lean Startup remain true, as described by Steve Blank in The Lean Startup Changes Everything : Business Plans are dead: Startups a series of hypothesis that need to be tested.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 16, 2018

The successful sales teams of the future will lean on these to win more deals: Personalized mobile apps. When building a personalized app for the donor registration organization DKMS, the software development team at Clevertech focused on simplifying and streamlining the original system to help retain users.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Studies show that only 5% of B2B buyers are ready to buy. Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. What: Wynter helps marketers to improve their copy with a panel of engaged B2B professionals. There’s only so much you can say about B2B panels in a way that nobody else has. 50% Market-level messaging.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

According to Demand Gen Report, 56% of B2B buyers say that a web search is their first resource, and 79% say the winning vendor’s content significantly impacts their buying decision. Before developing a program , consider the following variables: Deal size. Use the median numbers as a guide for which program to lean towards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. How to Use Social Media to Drive Traffic for B2B Companies – crowdspring.co/1nPz9An. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Hiring startup engineers? WordStream – crowdspring.co/1tOs1vg.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

Instead, we need to streamline and accelerate our processes by borrowing techniques from the world of lean and agile product development. Consider the example above, which is primarily for a B2B audience. That’s the power of the MVP, and of lean and agile approaches in general. An Exercise to Generate Your MVP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. Or variations thereof.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Throughout our journey, we had a few ‘solid’ theories and concepts that we were confident would work and we invested many resources into developing them. Now, we design every feature as lean and fast as possible to get early validation and only after the initial validation we build more robust capabilities.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Just as a refresher.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2018

The second goal is related to personal and professional development. Developing our platform, expanding our marketing efforts, and hiring more staff are all part of the process which will see that become a reality. It’s a big goal, but I know it’s achievable, especially if I focus and prioritize new business development this year.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

by Dan Adams , author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ As a B2B supplier, you can approach new product development one of two ways. Of course, performing more effective B2B customer tours will require you to make some changes and acquire new skills.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. So obviously if that's, I'm sure you lean into that, you know, that aspect, don't you, with your branding from a marketing standpoint.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

The Customer Experience (CX) movement is gaining more and more steam these days, especially in B2B companies like Return Path. Books Business Management Customer Development Customer Experience Lean Startup' The recurring thought I had reading this book, especially for companies like ours, was “Is CX the new UX?”

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Today, Grizzle is a full-service content marketing and SEO agency that provides B2B and SaaS companies end-to-end services. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Most B2B buyers know this.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 3, 2015

These polarised opinions point to some important truths, but are also dismissive of some important developments. That intent informs initial product ideas which are then most efficiently developed and tested using iterative methods, but it’s the intent that provides the initial leap forward.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Brendan Sterne , who unearthed the above articles on Amazon’s process, notes that Amazon differs from the model advocated in Lean Startup, which “aims to put a concrete prototype in front of consumers to validate the product.”.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building. Idea validation and Lean Planning. Idea validation is a practice which has been gaining more and more popularity as Lean Startup and Lean Planning methodologies have changed the way new business concepts are conceived.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2B, sales-driven technology. At this point I’m leaning toward the first deal, but not by a huge amount since there’s some risk to completing the round in both cases. The latter means products, analytics, optimisations, and developers. 40% dilution for full round (roughly $2mm pre-money).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In the case of B2B business, the ideal way is to come up with a robust symbiotic gamification model for business progression. Shahid Mansuri co-founded Peerbits , one of the leading mobile app development companies, in 2011. He believes in sharing his strong knowledge base with leaned concentration on entrepreneurship and business.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2017

With people’s attention spans getting shorter, there is growing pressure to make surveys lean. Therefore, for your conversion research efforts, it helps to spend a bit more time on question development. best for B2B). For B2B, post-conversion survey could be part of an on-boarding email. As David B. or how would you.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

People saying, “This is what’s happening to B2B SaaS or this is what’s happening to this category.” And so, we’ve seen a product-led growth motion certainly in the B2B space happening slowly. Christopher O’Donnell, who’s now the chief product officer at HubSpot, developed this analogy.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Vision for B2B, sales-driven technology. At this point I’m leaning toward the first deal, but not by a huge amount since there’s some risk to completing the round in both cases. The latter means products, analytics, optimisations, and developers. 40% dilution for full round (roughly $2mm pre-money).

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that. GFi has worked with a diverse set of organizations, including: start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, consumer goods, and B2B manufacturers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2024

Which elements does your B2B marketing training have and what would you like it to have? I think you might develop products and surfaces based out of that kind research, let alone this kind of editorial approach. So a hypothesis is great, but I wouldn't lean too heavily on that. We found these huge gaps in disconnects.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Too much for what is passed-off as “research” today is poorly developed, poorly defined, and poorly executed. Related posts: Lean Marketing: Facebook advertising for newbies. The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America. The Forrester report is materially flawed. Advertising is broken.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. The State of Business To Business (B2B) Content Marketing In North America - [link]. – [link].

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Hippoland

APRIL 17, 2016

My mentor, who is a FB exec (so she’s very familiar with the ins and outs of the whole Lean In movement), laid it out for me. At 500 Startups, when I talk to an early stage B2B company who has some semblance of a sales process in place, typically, the biggest problem is that the CEO isn’t able to do enough sales calls.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Individuals don’t make B2B buying decisions; groups do. This lead becomes your first contact and is then developed into an account. Marketing development reps were then limited to 100 accounts each and aligned with three to four sales reps to target only 400 accounts. 8 questions to ask before developing your ABM program.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

It creates focus and discipline and instills pressure to remain lean and not expand the team too quickly. Third, we look for founders that are customer obsessed, and are inclined to do the careful work of customer development that makes the pre-seed really productive. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). Oh , yes, many potential prospects are glad to request developer credentials for a free account, but never log in.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

Powerpoint can be especially useful for platform businesses or B2B. The conversation moves from consuming images on a screen in lean back mode, to active engagement. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. Mobile app? Bijan is right.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Memberstack’s B2B audience are familiar with YCombinator. This bright contrasting badge encourages visitors to scroll down and uses the classic Z-shape layout (also developed off the back of eye-tracking studies): Image source. Here’s the view for service teams: And for sales teams: The next section leans a little more on social proof.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

That’s no problem for months-in-development campaigns and seven-figure ad budgets. Step 1: Develop research goals and questions. For specific B2B folks (targeting by title + industry), LinkedIn is a good bet. We now have a list of keywords that B2B-minded people are looking for in a benefits page. gift cards, real money).

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