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The high road to building an enterprise SaaS company

The Next Web

The keys are maintaining capital efficiency, launching early versions to the SMB market and constantly applying customer development methods. This story continues at The Next Web. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' And more importantly, B2B companies.

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How to find that first big customer

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. You build the product, then you have your banner customer and go get others. make for not putting customer development before writing code. You land a contract to build them the solution. You’re just stalling.

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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

A big piece of the solution lies in the scalable impact of entrepreneurship and an increase of successful entrepreneurs. Max continued, “That’s why I’m really interested in ways of optimizing the entrepreneurship ecosystem to allow more entrepreneurs to go from idea to reality. I was feeling pretty old.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

We have two great teaching assistants , plus we’ve rounded up a team of 25 mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) to help coach the teams. There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Why Teach This Class? to optimize this search.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. It sounds like youre assuming that your execution will be flawless, even something to be copied by competitors, but how can you know without testing it on the customer? Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0

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