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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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I didn't really set out to write a book. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Before you have data to figure that out, you're in customer development mode, and you shouldn't have a sales person. Amos Schwartzfarb: Very often.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. This post is an accusation.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Video From Business Of Software 2009: Building Great Software Businesses - OnStartups , August 23, 2010 Of the several conferences I attend or speak each at each year, my favorite is the Business of Software conference organized be Neil Davidson (of Red Gate ) and Joel Spolsky (of Fog Creek ).

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Overture (Goto.com).