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5 Tactics To Ensure Your Solution Is Customer Driven

Startup Professionals Musings

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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5 Ways To Validate Your Technology As Market Driven

Startup Professionals Musings

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Startups Need To Build Solutions, Not Technology

Startup Professionals Musings

Creators of technologies that cure world hunger may find that hungry people don’t have money, but government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include personal computers, smartphones, the Internet and the first social-media platforms.

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5 Steps To Avoid Solutions Looking For A Problem

Startup Professionals Musings

Technologies that cure world hunger may find that that hungry people don’t have money, and government agencies as customers are a very long sales cycle. Examples of solutions from disruptive technologies include the appearance of personal computers, smartphones, the Internet, and the first social media platforms.

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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Learn to code? How about learn to sell!

This is going to be BIG.

The company sells to local governments, real estate management companies, educational institutions--anyone responsible for public or private infrastructure. Slow sales cycles. Joe and Mary Bureaucrat who don't even use the internet because Smalltown, USA blocks it as the decisionmakers. how many salespeople do you have?

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Prevailing Wisdom

Mucker Lab

2005 – “Sales cycle is too long for software companies selling to government and educational sector”. 1994 – “Consumers are fickle and unpredictable. Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. Everything). 2003 – “The browser war is over, Microsoft has won”.

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