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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. Companies struggle to compete while reconfiguring legacy distribution channels, pricing models and supply chains. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. like WeChat.). Competition.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

If you’re a software startup competing in China, the words that come to mind are “ruthless and relentless.” company setting up some subsidiary here and expecting them to compete while they were following U.S. Almost every entrepreneur I met was using VPN to circumvent the Great Firewall. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Hiring – Easy as Pie

Steve Blank

Over the last few weeks I’ve gotten involved in hiring for two startups, a public agency and a non profit. Now that you have this spec, evaluate each candidate by showing his/her competence in each slice by length. Show your assessment of each candidate’s competencies by the length of the slices. Compare candidates.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Babson Entrepreneur Resource Center. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16. University Resources: MIT 100K.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.