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5 Strategies To Thrive In Customer-Driven Disruption

Startup Professionals Musings

I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.

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GFi Working With Universities, Manufacturers, and Big Pharma

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

This was a complex session design that achieved the goals of forming diverse teams, and improving the quality and quantity of grant proposals. Qualitative Research & Facilitation: GFi worked with Hiler Industries , a high value cast iron manufacturer based in LaPorte, Indiana.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Take the example of Indianas Passageways. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Take the example of Indianas Passageways. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It’s the basis for much of modern design. When opening up my men’s clothing shop, I wanted to replicate the feeling of home and for my customers to walk out feeling better than when they walked in. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. Thanks to Keval Baxi, Codal !

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6 Tips To Help Entrepreneurs Win And Grow A Strong Customer Base

YoungUpstarts

How they apply those characteristics to customer discovery – the phase where the entrepreneurs hunt down customer prospects to validate their hypothesis – is as much art as science. The best entrepreneurs Sell, Design, Build in that order. Especially early on when you have a basic product (or a concept) and no customers.

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Retro Motorcycles Signal Innovation In Goshen, IN

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Janus Motorcycles in Goshen, Indiana is creating hand-crafted, small batch motorcycles. The retro-ish designs are informed by old American bike brands like Indian , and old British bikes like Triumph and Norton. I love this story for a number of reasons beyond the open design. Then there’s the Amish connectio n.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire. Have appropriate expectations, listen to the professionals in your employ and don’t micro-manage a design or development project. One of the biggest keys to getting great work is being a great client.