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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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What have you learned from your users?

VC Cafe

As startup founders ask themselves this question, some of the answers might be specific to their product: i.e. we should improve our onboarding, change our freemium model, etc. Or Briga, Co-founder and CEO of Novos.gg. We co-develop our product with our community. Alon Grinshpoon, Co-founder and CEO of Echo3D.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Seeking CEO+Cofounders for Spinoff of VC-Backed Startup, W. 36th St.

David Teten

ff Venture Capital is creating a new, spin-off business from an existing company, and we need a team to take the reins. Initially you will likely be working out of our co-working space on West 36th St., You should live in the New York tri-state area or be able to relocate and start working in a matter of weeks.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. It was a disaster.

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Introducing New Lean Startup Practitioners

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve just put a new batch of tickets on sale, and when this one sells out, the price goes up, so sign up now. Steven Hodas will be speaking at the conference about applying Lean Startup methods within extreme bureaucracy—in his case, the New York City Department of Education. government’s first public website.

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Personalization: How to Build a Revenue Boosting Program from Scratch

ConversionXL

As Des Traynor , co-founder of Intercom put it in the Intercom on Jobs-to-be-Done book : Des Traynor: Some products are better defined by the job they do than the customers they serve. Another one is to serve something different for daytime visitors vs night-time visitors. Behavioral segments. Here is the biggie. Image Source.