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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) I can make similar comments about watching people use your product.

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5 Financial Concepts Every Startup Founder Should Know

The Startup Magazine

This edge may come from deep knowledge of a vertical, discovering a loophole in the marketplace, or from possessing insights into the market that nobody else is privy to. Venkat Ramasamy leads operations, business development, sales and marketing functions at CodeLathe. To create Alpha, you need a market edge. venkatarag. getfilecloud.

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

He has a wealth of experience in the data vertical, having served in previous roles at companies such as Intel, AllScripts, and Vision.bi. In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. CEO Perspective.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example.

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And that’s just to get started.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a resp.