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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, customerdevelopment, etc. It is the key to “customerdevelopment” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
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And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customerdevelopment? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customerdevelopment and Y Combinator?
He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Overture (Goto.com).
This is exactly the reason I like people who present to me to start with their personal bios. 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 customerdevelopment cycle is very streamlined.
CustomerDevelopment. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customerdevelopment process. Single founder teams are welcome but may have to work twice as hard. StartupWeekend Next will focus on 5 core parts : The Entrepreneur’s Journey. The Flipped Classroom Approach.
Just like Startup Weekend most had never meet their team mates until the day of, and came together to develop a possible prize winning product in eight hours. At the end of the development time allotted for each team, They get up to present their days work. Teams: CoderTie. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition.
Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. As the final countdown neared, the counter to presentations ticked away with only 4 hours, then 1 hour and finally minutes until the cut-off. Pitches kicked off with 13 teams in total presenting. What a SWLA.
This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative. CustomerDevelopment Notes I'm assuming founders are having customerdevelopment conversations. Don't stress over format.
The venue was lined with vibrant and inviting decor, a spacious loft style presentation room, and plenty of mini-workstations for the motivated and social entrepreneur; a great setting for the presentation at hand. He went on to explain a bit about the customerdevelopment model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.
That died with waterfall software development. I’m not even talking about your 12-page Powerpoint presentation that you need to raise venture capital or to talk with potential biz dev partners. It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product.
Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day.
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Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Care Today. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Make it unique.
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