SoCal CTO
JANUARY 5, 2011
Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2010
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, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 15, 2010
I won’t belabor this – I have an investment in this space ( ad.ly ) so I’m biased. I think this classifies as a “crack filler&# and I’m not sure I would have done the investment for that reason. We had a big discussion about DST and why these investments. In my mind, not a typical VC investment.
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2013
It’s OK because in an era where you can much more rapidly prototype and build products it is far more beneficial to launch your first version, get initial customer traction and then talk to your customer base to understand how well it meets their needs. Compelling event answers the final question in sales, “Why buy now?”
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
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. Evangelism marketing is an advanced form of word of mouth marketing (WOMM), now largely replaced by Facebook and Twitter.
socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2018
The concept, is we want o get them to an accelerator, get them investment, or get them to revenueany one of those paths would be great. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.
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