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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. During the launch of Blackberry 7, RIM executives mentioned that Southeast Asia is a key market for developing applications.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, “How do I get my great idea on the web?

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Kung Fu

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You still have to get the first customers, and most of the rest, yourself. And by remembering confirmatory evidence while conveniently forgetting or explaining away the rest, even though “the rest” is where the real learnings reside. Otherwise, this is a failure of organizational development. Life can be contradictory.

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Pricing determines your business

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It’s often said that you shouldn’t talk about price during customer development interviews. Marketing and sales spend is nil, so there has to be a reason it spreads by word of mouth, ideally virally as a natural result of using the product itself. $10/mo simple enough to be self-service). Think: GoDaddy).

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the 2023 Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. 7- Sustainable development Photo Credit: Peter Chatfield One area where I anticipate developments in my field to accelerate in 2023 is the field of sustainable development.

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What did they do before you came along?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Photoshop was originally targeted at serious photographers — not people with point-and-click cameras and shake-to-develop film but the people with buckets of chemicals and blacked-out windows. They’re either developing their own film or they’re serial killers. Working the pain in B2B.