Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

I put that in quotations, because, as I’ll expound, there is a start-up industrial complex that is designed to fleece novice founders from their seed capital with predatory fees, terms, etc. Good accelerators don’t see you as a customer, you’re a partner that they want to help. OK, enough with disclosures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

. • Repeatable: Startups may get orders that come from board members’ customer relationships or heroic, single-shot efforts of the CEO. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers? But to achieve scale, startups need risk capital.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

. • Repeatable: Startups may get orders that come from board members’ customer relationships or heroic, single-shot efforts of the CEO. Does our product or service solve a customer problem (product-market fit)? How do we attract, keep and grow customers? But to achieve scale, startups need risk capital.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers. The right people are potential customers – ask them if they have the problem. Only if you’re doing it with the intention to learn about the market and customers.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

A well-funded startup with no product is still behind a startup with no money but a product and customers.&# You may also want to consider Crowdfunding at Seedups which is an innovative online matching service that allows entrepreneurs to raise up to £250,000 in seed capital from Business Angels. Seedups Hi Jeremy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

When the product and channel are bits, adoption by 10’s and 100’s of millions and even billions of users can happen in years versus decades. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. Entrepreneurship as It’s Own Management Science.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

As a SaaS company, we have had pretty good success in acquiring new customers for our business using various techniques: organic traffic, paid ads, email marketing, etc. This is one of the biggest problems in SaaS – churn is essentially the number of customers you lose every month because they cancel their subscription.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

So, we actually took the original live customer application, converting their live video dating application. But I think the, I just quickly adapted and I realized it wasn't just about writing software, things like customer service, marketing growth, those ideas were. We had to raise some seed capital. So, people default.

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