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TCVN Program: Customer Development

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 24, 2019 -- TCVN Program: Customer Development. The four tracks are: Legal, Execution, Finance, and Marketing and will consist of a series of five, consecutive monthly programs designed to give the entrepreneur a comprehensive overview of each area. Who is your customer?

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. what format would you and the developer want that in? This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?

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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. As developers embrace Kubernetes, Replicated launches tools to manage its deployments. “Once we started building on that success. .”

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

His basic point was: If someone, including me, tells you something isn’t a great idea and there’s no market for it there are only two acceptable responses. I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers." Customer Validation 101. Beware of Mentors. Either: "That’s interesting.

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

socalTECH

They really have to have an understanding of why their product exists, why their project exists, who the market is for their product. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. To excel, you have to know what those differentiators are to reach that market.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Certainly, both inside the programs I have run at Techstars, as well as outside, I've always been that person where if someone has a question about sales or early customer development, they would direct them to me.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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