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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This answers the question of “why buy anything?”

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

This particular evening, we attended the LeanLA meet-up located at Coloft, a swank professional co-op/work space in the heart of Santa Monica, known as the epicenter of the LA startup scene. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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