Berkonomics

OCTOBER 26, 2023

You’d know the symptoms, if not the name. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. Why use this term? Time bankruptcy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling your consulting service or a few products (as an alternative to eBay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2023

In addition to providing customer care and assistance, a virtual assistant may also develop web pages or compose blog entries, administer email newsletters, carry out sales and marketing chores, generate sales leads, and conduct a variety of other jobs. Thanks to Carter Seuthe, Credit Summit ! #4-

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Many customers think about the solution or service as a fancy add-on, but not as a part of operational processes. The next step in our research was talking to customers of our company Fullfunnel.io Our next step was defining an ideal customer profile and setting up clear qualification and disqualification criteria.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. A corporation like Starbucks could pick locations by throwing a dart at a map and know they’ll at least break even with a new location and mediocre customer service.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

So what about software developers? Developers starting out must choose between selling directly or using a third-party app store, who can do the discovery and back-end for them. At that point, the customer is exclusively paying for the infrastructure provided, since the product is already discovered.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Beyond (potential) customers, publicly visible analysts, and consultants, consider placing industry leaders who are a “reach” on your list. Software developers like to spend time with like-minded developers. The next step is then to prioritize and customize your outreach. Affinity by function.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. There are a plethora of such tools available online and they’re customized to suit different operations.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2017

You’d know the symptoms, if not the name. You’re fighting to put out the fires from customer complaints, or incomplete work, or are suffering from an inability to focus upon new development or new customers before cleaning up the mess inside your organization. Select too many, and pay too little attention to each.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2018

Software Development. One thing that we’re only going to need more of going forward is software. We use it for pretty much everything you can name these days, from accounting to managing government records. Every industry on earth uses software, even rural industry such as agriculture. Wind and Solar Energy.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 16, 2021

From e-commerce to bank payments, health care, restaurants, and travel companies, everyone is using mobile apps to flourish their business and increase customer satisfaction. The increasing demand for mobiles boosts businesses’ opportunities to track and deal with more customers. Provide Your Customers with Value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Here are the key steps for a personal home-based business website selling a few products (as an alternative to Ebay): Go online to reserve a website domain name. The cost for the domain name is maybe $10/year, and the hosting starts around $50/year. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook. Start simple.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? If so, are specific software development processes necessary?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Where do you stand on your brand, name, logo, positioning? If so, are specific software development processes necessary?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2015

So how do you become a leader in social commerce without household name attached to your brand? How can businesses keep customers’ loyalty when competing with masters of social commerce? This is crucial for businesses to succeed in finding the right customers are the right time. Constantly create “Calls to action”.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

Worldwide presence:- Right from its inception in the year 2001, Admiral Markets have successfully made a name for itself in the world market. Advanced software solutions:- Softwares developed by Admiral Markets for the purpose of performing professional level trading in the forex market offers great deal of help to the trading firms.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Your web developer must have a good knowledge of new technologies emerging in the market that can help them to build better websites. Their tool kit may include well-established, tried, and tested software mixed with unique new custom software developments. These days every new website launch must start with SEO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

Another one to avoid cash burn for software development is a contract for percent of future revenue. Do you really need that full-time assistant, regular bookkeeper, and big-name attorney? This will equate to 2 working founders (taking no salary), hiring a 5-person development team for a year. Great strategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

I know our industry , I know how our customers think, and in our industry …&#. So, next week you’re going to a convention where you’ll talk to dozens of new potential customers. He has an idea for a new software package for managing an expensive, time-consuming aspect of practice-management. “Great!

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Or a custom card with your logo and message? Long Live the King.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Visit online forums, social networks, and blogs and check customer star rating and comments. Identify things that customers are complaining about or areas in which they want some assistance. Step 2: Name your business. Once you have a business idea, you need to come up with a business name. Step 4: Get your domain name.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

How did they come up with the business name? The company used to be called testCloud.de, but the name testCloud was used by a product in the market. We provide crowdtesting for mobile and web apps using a network of people around the world who are good at testing software. Tell us about your products and services.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2014

Customer] Retention is King (good insights on measurement) – crowdspring.co/1haiyJt. Need a great name & URL for your new business? 5 Quick Tips for Buyers in Naming Projects – crowdspring.co/ThAKX4. Need a great name & URL for your new business? Customer Development 101) – crowdspring.co/1pNIOcD.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

No one wants their hard work to go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Network marketing is one such industry that relies only on acquiring new customers. The IT industry is made up of a wide range of sectors, such as software development, hardware manufacturing, and telecommunications. 12- AI: The real future.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 15, 2012

Listen to this episode with Nick from PinfoB.com to learn how to tell customers no. Nick: The name of the company is PinfoB.com. Jason: Well, it’s certainly a very complicated company because the name is difficult to even spell. Lucky for you, domain names are not case-sensitive or you’d be sunk already, right?

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Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

Where possible, be specific with names. Buyer or user personas —fictional representations of your ideal customers based on their demographics and other characteristics—have been used successfully for many years in industries like software development, and you can find many resources and templates online.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

When hardware maker Quirky went out of business, Ben Einstein at Bolt had this to say : "A good company builds one product, learns from its customers, and iterates to make that product exceptional. Congrats to the goTenna team on a huge accomplishment for their customers.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2018

How did they come up with the business name? The company used to be called testCloud.de, but the name testCloud was used by a product in the market. We provide crowdtesting for mobile and web apps using a network of people around the world who are good at testing software. Tell us about your products and services.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Messenger marketing is the act of marketing to your customers and prospective customers using a messaging app like Facebook Messenger. And according to a Facebook survey, more than half (53%) of customers say they’re more likely to shop with a business that they can connect with via chat. What is Messenger Marketing?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

In 2020, we’re looking forward to now expanding our relationship with each customer by creating a deeper sense of community. Our resolution as a company is to help customers keep their resolutions by being a consistent source of motivation, inspiration and accountability. 18- Make my name a brand. Paying it forward.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Although undeniably useful, Scrum was originally created for software development. In the meantime, the impressions have already been made upon the customer, and in some cases, the opportunity there isn’t fully seized because things were rushed.

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