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[Review] YOUtility

YoungUpstarts

After all, they are created to make money by selling a product or a service to a customer. Since then, he has expanded his ideas into a full-fledged book covering both the theoretical and practical dimensions of what he labels as “Youtility” In Jay’s words, Youtility is useful marketing from the perspective of customers.

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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”. They are willing to take your claims about the market at face value, and can do confirmatory research or diligence later.

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How To Find The Best City For Your Type Of Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. On the other hand, if you are into solar technologies, there is probably an advantage to being in Phoenix or a similar location.

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Why Every Company Needs A DevOps Team Now

Feld Thoughts

A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. You can get the whole story in my book, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win ). This means that technical debt starts to increase.

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16 Design Symbols Your Business Can Use to Improve Its Brand Identity

crowdSPRING Blog

Symbols can help customers understand your brand. It can also signify rebirth (as in the myth of the Phoenix). The moon can be used by a company seeking to demonstrate an ongoing relationship with their customers. Using a less literal representation is effective with technologically oriented businesses. Avoid conflict.

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Startups Need the Eight P’s for Successful Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The value proposition is a short statement that clearly communicates the target customer, the customer’s problem and the pain that it causes, the unique solution that addresses this problem, and the net benefit of this solution (value derived versus relative cost) from the customer's perspective.