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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

Your first instructor may or may not be the best match for you in terms of teaching style or personal chemistry. As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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How to Do a Competitive Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide

ConversionXL

The fact that your client, leadership, or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it’s true. The lean, aggressive ones do. Reliable lifts come from knowing your customer and tailoring the value proposition to match that customer’s motivations in a way that no other website will. reviews, trust).

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Competitive Analysis

ConversionXL

The fact that your client, leadership or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it is true. The lean, aggressive ones do. Reliable lifts come from knowing your customer and tailoring the value proposition to match that customer’s motivations in a way that no other website will.

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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

5) The customer’s needs don’t match your long term direction. While I completely agree with this notion, the signals might be more important (when you might fire them): 1) You don’t have a bi-directional (respectful) relationship. 2) They don’t care about your profitibility and ultimately, your staying power.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.] Reply Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? carry on reading.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

The next thing you need to do is match your sales team with your market type. It’s only after you’re done with customer discovery and are in the final steps of customer validation (building a repeatable and scalable sales process) that you start hiring a sales executive. You need to hire the right type of sales people for the type of market.