Customer Development Product Development Retention Sales 
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. Close the sale.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talented product developers. Consider the superb results companies are getting from this new way of thinking about customers: - Customer salespeople achieved, in effect, 80 percent close rates for Salesforce.com , which was key in growing their business in the face of much bigger, better-funded competitors. -
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ConversionXL
FEBRUARY 9, 2016
They need products that are really working in the market. This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. And it’s a combined product management and technical function, to boost an already positive growth curve into something even bigger.” Ads drive awareness…to drive sales.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.
ConversionXL
JULY 3, 2014
Fueled by data driven research that map out the who behind the buying decisions of your products or services, customer personas can help inform everything from more effective copy to product development. The Case For Building Customer Personas Out Of Data-Driven Research. It was a disaster.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. StageGate Process.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
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