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LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup

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Battle stories and lessons learned about how Sharethrough, applying the lean startup process, figured out the advertising landscape and customer developed their way into the door of a myriad of Fortune 500 customers. Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup.

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

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I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. But I made it for a reason. Time will tell.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Traffic.com sold 10-second in-content advertising spots to local TV broadcasters. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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Matt Stodder: The most important thing is to understand their customers, and who they are going after. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development. That kills companies and waste resources.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

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Both companies were spending big bucks to advertise yet the offer left me cold and I must not be alone in this as both companies have slumping sales. These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.