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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Ditto for enterprise software companies. portfolios.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Several junior sales associates to handle online customer acquisition and orientation; and, 3. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software.

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

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Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. Yet again, he was solving for his own needs.

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

SoCal CTO

Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. This post is an accusation. call to arms.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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