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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Great post! Progress is the same.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

They should also consider launching online B2C or B2B platforms incorporating mobile and social-commerce. To market to Muslims, companies could take note of the holy month of the Ramadan, offer halal products, develop shariah-compliant Islamic financial services, or create mobile apps.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.

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Freemium vs. Free Trial: Which Gets You More Paying Customers (Not Just Freeloaders)?

ConversionXL

But rather than spending marketing dollars on expensive, bottom-of-funnel ad buys—or on content that attempts to explain the value of a product—a product-led strategy lets consumers create their own “Aha!” Consumer psychology also suggests why product-led strategies may enjoy more success : Endowment effect.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

The Market Definition Canvas works for both B2C and B2B applications. The goal of the market definition canvas is to help innovators uncover the job-to-be-done as perceived by the customer , not the product developer. Other products used and their functions. What “job” does each of the other products get done?

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

It’s common for new products or early-stage startups to lack sufficient quantitative data to see meaningful themes or patterns. For example, Wonderflow , a VoC analytic company for B2C clients, was working to learn why their client’s innovative baby monitor failed to meet buyers’ expectations. .

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002.

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