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How to get your mobile app discovered in 2021

VC Cafe

As a VC that invests in B2C, I often try to put myself in shoes of a founder looking to grow the audience for their new app to consumers. The reality for startups is that it’s not enough to build, design and ship a great looking app – marketing and distribution are critical to success. Slack or Discord).

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear. It is incumbent upon you to listen.

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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. Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Is there a profitable business model? Great post!

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

Slack is known for its user-friendliness and intuitive design, and having this in-depth help center helps reinforce that product image. Put yourself in the shoes of someone using the product and consider all the questions that may arise. Once they reviewed qualitative parent feedback, it became clear.

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Cracking the Product Demo Code: Lessons From 78 SaaS Demos

ConversionXL

What types of demos are used, and are there correlations between B2B and B2C demo usage? It’s also possible that these demos might have an up-front cost to design, code, and deploy. There was no significant difference in live demo usage between B2B or B2C companies, being 70% and 71%, respectively. Demo data analysis.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

The Jobs-to-be-Done Market Definition Canvas is designed to help you define the market you are in or have chosen to serve as [a group of people] + [the job they are trying to get done]. The Market Definition Canvas works for both B2C and B2B applications. Other products used and their functions.

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