Steve Blank
MAY 23, 2016
Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. Yet everyone – investors, entrepreneurs, academics — expected new startups to follow the same practices that worked for large companies – write a business plan, forecast 5-year sales projections and build the product without ever talking to customers.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 5, 2018
It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. Spreadsheets sort of worked for a while but it didn’t scale with my t-shirt business and it certainly didn’t help me to invoice my customers on time or avoid an overstocked situation.
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Hearpreneur
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
You learn how to appear to be devoted to new products without actually committing financially until you receive feedback and orders from your customers. My parents were both refugees from Vietnam and had to support a family of five. I had learned about some serious customer problems that I knew I could solve with a tangential business.
Duct Tape Marketing
JULY 13, 2023
He emphasizes the importance of focusing on business growth, making an impact, and connecting with customers rather than getting caught up in content creation and personal branding. Look, AI is literally eating the web ChatGPT is more searched than I don't know, Taylor Swift. You need to contact your customers, you need to sell stuff.
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
For many companies, the ability to strike the right tone on social networks is a key way for managers, marketing departments, and owners to reach customers and ensure that a great reputation isn’t a company’s best kept secret. Conversely, respectful behavior wins fans quickly.
Steve Blank
MAY 17, 2011
In the early 1970’s, as some of you might remember, our country was in the middle of the Vietnam War—-and the Air Force was happy to have me. My job was to replace failed electronic warfare equipment in fighter planes as they returned from bombing missions over North Vietnam. We let our customers, our investors, and our employees down.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
billion) globally from January through November 2017, according to customs data. Smaller, poorer countries such as Vietnam and Malaysia wanted freer trade with the U.S. The nation is also a major exporter of washing machines, selling 21 million units abroad worth just under 19 billion yuan (US$2.9
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