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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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

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think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. What went wrong?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - First Principles.

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