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How To Survive The Loss Of A Main Customer

YoungUpstarts

When it occurs, the consequences can be swift and devastating, wreaking potential havoc on a once steady stream of revenue. Conduct a post-action review. If the company has employees, by implicating the entire team, each member can obtain a clear view of the process and contribute to future fixes and enhancements.

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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. Practice Agile Development. Their answers are below. Cross Train Members. Build Trust.

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Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

About twenty people on Answers OnStartups have asked this question in one form or another: When I meet an angel investor, he may ask: "What if a big company copies your idea and develops the same website as yours after your website goes public?". But how does authority convert to revenue? How can I answer this question?

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Snyk: How Freemium Can Help Your Start-up Grow from Series A to $2.6B in 30 Months

Cracking the Code

Snyk was founded with the mission to help developers make their code secure, providing a platform to automatically assess and remediate open source vulnerabilities. The company’s success has been largely driven by its developer-led freemium model, going from Series A funding to a valuation of $2.6B in just 30 months.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. and we ultimately sold when we hit $14 million and had more than $30 million in backlog revenue. I learned about revenue recognition. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m