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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freshman Salesman writes: I’ve read somewhere in your blog about how you had a very large organisation as the first customer for your software. I’m putting myself in the same boat now with the solution I’m developing so could you tell me: 1. Maybe you worked there or a co-founder or investor has some juice).

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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The Pay-It-Forward Culture: Silicon Valley's Practical Generosity

ReadWriteStart

Engineers in the very small world of silicon and semiconductors would meet at the Wagon Wheel and swap technical problems and solutions with co-workers and competitors. Blank teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University and UC Berkeley and blogs at steveblank.com. A Computer in every Home.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. Wouldnt you rather relate to customers in that frame of mind than on TV or in a banner ad? And, as a customer, wouldnt you rather be treated that way? In other words, not very much. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. No funding and you are trying to get exposure, you have exhausted Twitter, Facebook and a blog.

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Piercing the Corporate Veil of Sweat Equity

grasshopperherder.com

BLOG About Contact Subscribe to Feed end #menug -->. « Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.”