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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Savings here can easily reach another $10K per month.

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

InfoChachkie

I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. Preaching What You Live. One of the best students I ever had.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Business Concept The key first part of the conversation with a developer is having a good capture of the business more broadly. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document. The business canvas model is a good short list. Or you can have a pitch deck.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. And market your brand, not your personality.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

I think the fact that NorCal didn’t have strong industries in financial services, manufacturing, autos, marketing or other traditional industries also made experimentation more acceptable. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 14:00 How can we bring that culture to other places? So what is that?

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Work out of your home, and keep your own books. Social media facilitates marketing and sales. Savings here can easily reach another $10K per month.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. What's the new book about? Amos Schwartzfarb: The book is called Sell More Faster, the Ultimate Sales Playbook For Startups. That was four years ago.

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