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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. He should make sure that there aren’t other parts of the business model (revenue model, pricing, partners, channel, etc.) Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

They didn’t always keep their angel investors informed about the changes they were making and it nearly cost them: We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

They didn’t always keep their angel investors informed about the changes they were making and it nearly cost them: We followed every test and experimental process from the get-go but we didn’t tell our investors we were doing that. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

In both physical and Web/mobile channels, earlyvangelists display these common characteristics: They have a problem or need. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. The idea that a startup builds its product for a small group of initial customers rather than devising a generic mainstream spec is radical.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

Costs Cost per target – targets can be free (organic traffic, internal lists) or paid (from advertising, purchased lists). Cost per prospect – given only a certain percentage of targets become prospects, what is the true cost you are paying for a prospect. Oct, 2010 at 9:39 am A comment and a question.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. tells you how much adwords cost. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Customer Development. Roku Channel Store. Codeacademy. SW Courses.