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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

I originally conceived it as the Top 11 things that I believe “all entrepreneurs need to succeed.&# If it stuck to this theme then I would stand by my top 11. It isn’t a “must&# for me but it’s certainly a huge positive when entrepreneurs have it. Are you launching a mobile application? Another example.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You can now get tooling and products built very quickly either in the US or in China, with delayed payment options.

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

" One was an enterprise software product. Would it take more work to sell the enterprise product than they could make on it? In both cases, the founder and I brainstormed on ways to shift the product in order to get closer to what I perceived as something that would be great. Customer Validation 101.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

Steve is also a Stanford Professor and noted marketing entrepreneur. The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. It is a playbook.

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