Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities. Now the company is in crisis mode.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 28, 2015
But back now to reality, and I some small measure of redemption, because it’s time for the set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account )! 16 Startup Metrics – buff.ly/1Nwxfp5. Things the Smartest People Never Do crowdspring.co/1WdhUMQ.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2009
Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.
crowdSPRING Blog
DECEMBER 27, 2010
So I considered resources that I use on a regular basis, that provide real value to me in my own life as a startup co-Founder and that I think others will benefit from. A really nice travel rewards program is vital for startups on limited budgets. This is what I get when I read Paul Graham.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 5, 2013
Real-time points and mileage redemption appeared at the POS, first introduced over a decade ago and now going mainstream. I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries.
crowdSPRING Blog
JUNE 8, 2014
Redemption is all around us every wherever we look, whether as a plot-line in a movie or in the world of politics. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: Thinking About Business Plans (again). Small Business and Startups: For Great Service, Speed Counts. Small Business and Startups: Prepare For the Worst.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 20, 2015
The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. If suddenly I’m needed for something, or get an assignment from the CEO or anyone else on the leadership team, I get after it. Great startup communities work the same way. Most of all, I want to provide leadership through doing.
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