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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
We ended up merging those two companies together and I took over client services for Business.com, around the time Benchmark invested in us, and we ended up selling that company to R.H. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Donnelly in 2007.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2013
I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This answers the question of “why buy anything?”
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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. Matt Stodder: The most important thing is to understand their customers, and who they are going after. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers.
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
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. Minimize investment in prototypes and tooling. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. 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.
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