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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

He had teamed up with a former product manager at P&G to deliver seminars on just this subject. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This article originally appeared on Inc.com. So there you have it.

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Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Look for locations near entrances, food concessions, rest rooms, seminar rooms, or close to major exhibitors. Tradeshow Seminars Almost all tradeshows have conferences and seminar sessions; is your company keynoting any? Be sure to look at a floor plan before you choose your site. Leading or speaking at any?

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The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product.

Steve Blank

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

My Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar courtesy of Stanford Ecorner (audio podcast only for now, video coming soon): if youd like to follow along with slides, they are here: 2009 09 29 The Lean Startup At Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar View more presentations from Eric Ries. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Hacking for Defense & Hacking for Diplomacy – Educator/Sponsor Class

Steve Blank

Fourth , would the same Lean Startup methodology (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) used in the Lean LaunchPad and NSF I-Corps class work here? We’re offering a 2½ day seminar for educators who want to offer either class. Result: Hell yes. 7 universities have signed up to teach it.