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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. I wanted this book not only as my “secret weapon,” but also for all entrepreneurs in Japan. The Crater in my rookie days.

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Creative Options For US Companies Who Advertise In Japan

YoungUpstarts

Japan is one of the top countries spending the most on advertising. As you can imagine, this also makes Japan one of the most competitive markets in the world with advertisers striving to be the most creative. Companies Expanding to Japan. companies are drawn to Japan because of its very developed consumer base.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks. There was a time when much of U.S. Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs.

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12 Questions: Meet Naoki Haruyoshi (Japan)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Naoki lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. For the next decade ERA would continue to deliver a stream of special-purpose code breaking electronic systems and subsystems for the Navy cryptologic community. By the end of WWII, with the U.S.

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IGNITE! pitch event at Microsoft – September 4

David Teten

A place for geeks to share what they’ve done, who they did it with and connect with great companies and communities. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. In Geeklist we provide the global developer community a place to get credit where credit is due. We change that.

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