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6 Tips To Help Entrepreneurs Win And Grow A Strong Customer Base

YoungUpstarts

Hustle and scrappiness are attributes that every great entrepreneur has. How they apply those characteristics to customer discovery – the phase where the entrepreneurs hunt down customer prospects to validate their hypothesis – is as much art as science. The best entrepreneurs Sell, Design, Build in that order.

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Startup Lessons Learned 2011 streaming live

Startup Lessons Learned

Strengthening ties between entrepreneurs is one of our most important values. We struggle with this issue every year, because we strongly encourage everyone who can to participate with their local entrepreneurship community. That said, there comes a point where that's not possible for everyone.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Fast-paced, thought-provoking and social, this Ignite features presentations from in-the-trenches entrepreneurs ready to share their lessons learned. For some of my thoughts on Lean Startup Machine, see A month is fifteen weekends and The real entrepreneurs of New York City. Also: booze.