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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

Turn Your Organization Inside Out. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization. The Outside In organization had a one-way flow. Back then it seemed foreign.

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

InfoChachkie

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. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Mahdessian and Kuzoyan met on a ski trip organized by the Armenian student associations at Stanford and the University of Southern California back when both men were in college. Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

As Avesta Rasouli, SWLA Co-organizer and Founder of Coloft says, “Go sell something! 2nd place went to MarkedUp that helps mobile developers collect and organize visual feedback from their beta testers and users ( markedup.mobi ). Coffee is for closers!” making this their first SWLA.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Plus, a TweetUp already means a meet up in a city organized through Twitter. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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

SoCal CTO

Conceived in 1987 by Motorola and spun out in 1990 as a separate company, Iridium planned to build a mobile telephone system that would work anywhere on earth. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong?