Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2020

They keep the role neutral, like Switzerland, neither on the research side, nor on the operation side, but in between, like a mediator needs to be. This move effectively limits China’s access to a critical resource- the custom chips that are vital to products that fuel China’s domestic and export growth.

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Technical Review Taiwan Technology Design 322

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. I got to experience much of the local culture and customs. Obviously if you’re in a customer support role, a sales role or a customer service industry this can be impossible.

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France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

Transformify

AUGUST 20, 2018

All data privacy, time management, productivity and project management requirements of the clients are discussed, and custom solutions are provided on an individual basis. ‘’Test-and-Hire’’ Solution. The candidates are hired as self employed or independent contractors via Transformify Recruitment CRM.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

Any communities wondering how they can take advantage of blockchain in a big way could look to Zug, Switzerland, for advice. Dubai Tourism recently announced a blockchain-enabled marketplace to connect potential customers directly to hotels and tourism operators. Financial Services.

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Switzerland Database Security Technology 145

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2019

by Jesmane Boggenpoel , author of “ My Blood Divides and Unites: Race, Identity, Reconciliation “ As the world becomes more globalized and advancement in technology continues to evolve, diversity in the workplace will continue to grow, making it more common to deal with clients, customers, and employees from all over the world.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

What the Switzerland Structure is, and what it has to do with identifying your business’s valuation. Intercom’s mission is to help you provide simple, quick, and friendly service for your customers. When you can give your customers the one thing they’re looking for, you’ll generate amazing results for your business.

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Switzerland Entrepreneur Valuation Differentiation 65

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Mostly smartphones + restaurateurs attitude towards viewing the internet as a customer acquisition tool. Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with. Thanks Lee.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2017

Though the startup was founded in Switzerland, the clothes were featured on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo. They are set on revolutionizing the way we sleep and bringing pyjamas into the age of science and design to ensure their customers achieve the optimal temperature for restful and comfortable sleep. The post High Tech PJs?

Switzerland 60

Switzerland Cofounder Startup Restful 60

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2015

How Working Collectively Can Create a Better Customer Experience written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. We frequently work together and share experience to provide added value to our customers. via PhotoPin. Leverage collective knowledge. Form a collective network.

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Switzerland Customer Networking Cofounder 28

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 2, 2015

However, when the boss says he is going to let you take the lead on the European account, don’t think the same old sales tactics you use to wow your American customers will work in Europe. If you don’t, you could quite possibly insult your potential customer, or worse, lose the deal before you even give your presentation. They won’t.

Austria 100

Austria Germany Switzerland Europe 100

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what’s the product? what distribution channel? Personal Libraries.

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Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 236

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Last summer, Etihad Airways, the United Arab Emirates’ national carrier, joined the many airlines and hotels that have partnered with Switzerland-based Winding Tree to bypass intermediaries using distributed ledger technology.

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United Arab Emirates Switzerland Cofounder France 63

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 2, 2023

Worst job ever: Customer service rep. Favorite trip I’ve ever taken: European tour of France, The Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland with my husband and sons. And, instead of giving you our biographies, we thought it’d be fun to hear about some experiences that make us who are. at Vermont Teddy Bear Company.

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Belize Panama Vermont Switzerland 60

Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

You and I are poor proxies for the customer. While that will mean we lose revenue in the short term, my hypothesis is that customer satisfaction will improve by 18 points which will lead to increased Visitor Loyalty and is that not what ESPN really wants?" Certainly not the HiPPO (Highest Paid Person's Opinion). Surprise me.

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Web Non-Compete Analytics SEO 112

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During this week's roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. Joel has one anchor customer right now and has validated his assumptions based on that case study.

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Poland Argentina Oakland Entrepreneur 126

The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2022

Through the 5 R’s of the circular economy—Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle—EAL converts donations of customer returns and other excess inventory into operational savings for colleges. Freed is a global thinker and living proof that purpose-driven businesses transform lives.

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Founder Argentina Chicago Switzerland 119

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 25, 2017

As we wrote previously : Brand awareness reflects the degree to which customers or potential customers can recognize or recall a brand and correctly associate that brand with a specific product or service. Customer preferences and markets change over time, so it’s important to understand trends before you settle on your brand.

Small Business 68

Small Business Design Switzerland Startup 68

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. We came up with a positioning strategy that helps them sell value-added when recession-pinched customers are squeezing them for low rates.

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Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

BeyondVC

APRIL 23, 2017

To oversimplify, I’ll call it pre-customer and post-customer domination. That’s not to say it can’t be done as those companies have larger fish to fry, mainly huge enterprise customers and $1mm + deals. The Race for the Customer – Owning the Central Repository for Customer Data.

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Customer Switzerland Artificial Inteligence API 92

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I know that’s something you talk a lot about with your customers. John Warrillow: It’s called The Automatic Customer. John Jantsch: The Automatic Customer , [crosstalk] but that was the basis of it really, right? They can simply grow quite quickly by winning new customers. Take Intercom customer, Unity.

Entrepreneur 49

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 49

blog.startupsquare.com

APRIL 13, 2010

2 Comments Tags: Customer Development , lean startup , pivot , Strategy. Having gone through 51 iterations of my mockups and gathered as much as feedback as I could with our primitive alpha, I feel confident about our basic customer problem hypothesis. This is “Customer Need&# in Eric’s list.

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Lean Startup Cofounder Architecture 40

The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2013

A study by the University of Basel, Switzerland in 2012 looked more deeply into the results of the 2006 Canadian study and proved what all tech users know to be commonly true. All future customizations are not too challenging because of the intimate knowledge the creator has of the template. Basically, they look freakin’ awesome.

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Analytics Switzerland Design Retention 135

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc).

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS 276

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 25, 2018

At the age of 50, Samira Buchi left her small town Switzerland home to pursue her American dream. I was born in Switzerland but raised by a Mediterranean family. We don’t begin working on a bag before a customer has ordered it. You would be wrong to think that nothing new can come from a person at 50 years.

Design 49

Design Switzerland New York City New York 49

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What matters the most for checkout experience isn’t the number of steps in a checkout process, but rather what the customer has to do at each step. 81% Think Their Newsletter Is A “Must Have” (And Don’t Value Customer Privacy). Grainger ( 9 ). Large view. Large view.

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Design Software Review HTML Technical Review 98

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

He has also been guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. Antoine is originally from Zurich (Switzerland), and, with his family, has spent the past 18 years in Princeton, New Jersey. TSheets – The #1 customer rated time tracking solution!

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Switzerland New Jersey Cofounder New York 60

Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

As MassChallenge learned when it launched at the height of the recession in 2010, we must all take action and identify new paths to market and discover solutions that resonate with our teams and our customers. Now more than ever, entities from different sectors must come together for the greater good to bolster the economy.

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Rhode Island St. Louis Missouri Texas 87

Cracking the Code

MAY 20, 2016

Example - Switzerland has 129 different bilateral trade accords with the EU, but must accept free movement of people and still pays fees to the EU. Outside EEA, but with a negotiated customs union. Out of EEA, but the UK would negotiate access to the single market, sector by sector. free movement).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

parent company while providing technical services for foreign customers. Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity.

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Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Incubator 120

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2012

While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. While I have no idea if this is feasible, the need for it seems to be increasing on a regular basis.

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Iceland Cloud Switzerland Government 133

Where to Play

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Remember that this is a learning process: you will need to discover different types of customers and understand their motivation, you will need to set your strategic focus wisely, and you will need to set your assumptions for each market and to validate them in order to assess and compare your options.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

The occasion was F.ounders , a networking event that has been dubbed the " Davos for Geeks ", after the elite conference of power brokers held in Switzerland each year. Too many companies value shareholders over customers and that leads to corporate senescence, which is very bad for shareholders. (By June 19, 2012. Strategerizer.

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IPO Stock Switzerland Valuation 48

Hippoland

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

My first job out of college was in customer support/sales in Tokyo. I couldn’t speak / write Japanese very well, so my company didn’t want me talking with customers. In the subsequent weeks, -I got moved into the marketing dept at the same company (my company didn’t want me speaking with their customers). I was devastated.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Switzerland New Zealand Jordan 48

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Their email marketing programs are, literally, leaving money and customer love on the table. Check out Cisco Switzerland.). If you step away from the mirror and give my business framework a thought, it is all about our customer and not us. B2B companies usually don't consider customer intent. We are a business.

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Social Media Media B2C B2B 60

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Intuitive customer profiles make finding your fit and style easy. including potential investors and customers, MassChallenge mentors, and VIP community leaders?—?will MakersValley, LLC : (New York, Texas): MakersValley is the AirBnB of small batch apparel manufacturing with the goal to democratize the manufacturing industry.

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