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From Idea To Execution: Building An Efficient Workflow For Your New Venture

The Startup Magazine

It’s not just about a logo or a tagline; it’s the experience you promise your customers. Develop a marketing strategy that leverages both digital and traditional channels. Content marketing, social media, and email campaigns can be cost-effective ways to engage your audience and build brand awareness.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Codecademy.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. Do it yourself.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

. — Having now done several startups, Matt has learned to keep his eye on a singular aim: The goal is to get customers, not to raise money: There are a lot of people that are just chasing dollars, trying to get a VC to fund them, and they’ll give up 40 percent of their company in the first round just to get some major amount of money.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

. — Having now done several startups, Matt has learned to keep his eye on a singular aim: The goal is to get customers, not to raise money: There are a lot of people that are just chasing dollars, trying to get a VC to fund them, and they’ll give up 40 percent of their company in the first round just to get some major amount of money.

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How an event led to multimillions of dollars in product revenue

Hippoland

The Hustle , the company that runs Hustle Con, is a fast growing media company that serves up tech news in an edgy way. This is unlike any other marketing channel where you, as the company, need to pay to get potential users. If you are doing an event to get people to do customer development with, you need to stay top-of-mind.

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How an event led to multimillions of dollars in product revenue

Hippoland

The Hustle , the company that runs Hustle Con, is a fast growing media company that serves up tech news in an edgy way. This is unlike any other marketing channel where you, as the company, need to pay to get potential users. If you are doing an event to get people to do customer development with, you need to stay top-of-mind.

Revenue 48