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[Singapore][Event] Startup Weekend Singapore 2012

YoungUpstarts

Startup Weekend Singapore is back! The upcoming Startup Weekend in Singapore, will be held on March 9-11, 2012, at NUS Business School. This year (the first was held in 2010) the event will be organized by a group of students from the National University of Singapore Overseas Colleges Alumni (NOC Alumni).

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[Review] The Lean Startup

YoungUpstarts

Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).

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Strategy is Not a To Do List

Steve Blank

I had breakfast with two of my ex-students from Singapore who were building a really interesting startup. They were deep into Customer Discovery and presented a ton of customer data on the validity of their initial hypothesis – target customers, pricing, stickiness, etc. Filed under: Ardent , Customer Development.

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Applying Lean Startup Beyond Silicon Valley

Startup Lessons Learned

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. They often look on this as a waste of time.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

The millennials, aged between 18-35 years old, now make up more than 25% of Singapore’s current resident population, according to Singapore’s Department of Statistics. According to the Connected Life report by global research consultancy TNS Singapore, Singapore’s millennials spend an average of one day a week, or 3.4

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Say What? Five Quick Scripts For Responding To Customer Complaints

YoungUpstarts

Your Service, a global service education and management consultancy firm with offices in the United States and Singapore. He is the founder of UP!

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'