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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

We spent time out in the marketplace talking with customers, looking at their solutions, comparing ourselves with our competition and then squirreling ourselves away in our offices designing our next set of features. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

Overall, the capacity-crowd consisted of plenty of different professional identities, all tuning in to hear lead presenter David Binetti, Co-Founder and Business Model Designer for Votizen. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer.

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Ten Executive Titles You Don’t Want in a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

What you really need is a VP of Marketing and Customer Development, who can help with lead generation and honing the message, rather than an executive to manage a sales team and existing customers. They should get their satisfaction from building their business, rather than building their title. Chief Risk Officer.

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

SoCal CTO

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups. What went wrong?