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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

You’d be much better served to use what you know about your customers to create highly targeted and personalized direct marketing campaigns. And good news: This tailored approach is vastly more effective than general media campaigns, too! Risk stepping out from behind technology.

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And once you got the data you asked for, it still took weeks or months for a marketer to tease out any customer insight and trends from the data. An Epiphany.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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