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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

And for students of economics, you see the cost curve. Your marginal costs and your average costs of building software do not go down over time. What’s ironic is that software is one of the few businesses where the more you build, the cheaper it gets, it should. The graph on the left just doesn’t work.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

I received a great question via LinkedIn: I'm the founding engineer and working hard to launch my startup. for a Lead Developer: How much will it cost to build what we need to build? How can I control costs but effectively get stuff developed? How can we phase development to balance cost, features, risk, etc?

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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive.

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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

After that, the adoption of the cloud as a more scalable and cost-effective approach allowed small/medium business to build CRMs around very specific market needs and establish dominance in new vertical segments. Marketing and Sales departments are strongly aligned on the definition of MQLs.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

For the uninitiated, Zoho introduced a CRM system that was one-tenth the price of Salesforce.com and penetrated the lower end of the market using an Indian cost structure. Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Toward that end, they have created two products. Discuss.

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Business Apologies: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Do

ConversionXL

And despite what the old adage says, the customer is most definitely not always right. Hidden costs : If you purchase something online, you expect the delivery driver to arrive at your door and deliver the item you ordered at the price you paid—no questions asked. Hidden or unexpected costs anger consumers.