Competition Customer Develop Technical Advisors 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. It is simply the most important way to proactively control your career development and how the market perceives you.
Tech.Co
MAY 22, 2018
One of the biggest turn offs for investors are founders who don’t know the basics of their business, especially their market and customer. They have to know their industry, know their customers, and understand what it takes to make their customers happy.”. I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor.
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Tech Zulu Event
JULY 28, 2012
The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 10, 2011
Our own subsidiary, of a major technology company, started to repair and service competitive products in order to maintain our own technical staff and service capabilities. Brazil is now a powerful country, but similar examples still prevail in many developing nations. Respect local customs and practices.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I would argue that this mostly consists of consumer Internet companies (although not exclusively) and it is predominantly early-stage people who are product gurus and have a mildly technical bend to them. Half baked ideas get refined, new ideas emerge and a two way dialoge develops where a one way monologue once was.&#. Mobile app?
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? Build a SWAT team 3.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 5, 2010
You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. Been there. What about call centers?
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