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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). The Curation Team. Here’s why.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. uh, hello!

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

But the early customers all compared it to MySpace. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business.

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

conversionxl.com

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? Website Analysis.

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. China has essentially closed its internal search, media and social network software market to foreign companies who wouldn’t play with the government rules on the Great Firewall. VC’s pulled back and only invested $3.7