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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Marketing should start before product development.

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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. ————-. The Crater in my rookie days.

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Eight Key Problems Every Startup Should Anticipate

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions.

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8 Reality Checks That Every Startup Founder Dreads

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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8 Clues that Your Business Honeymoon May be Over

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development is stuck at that 90% mark, a key person leaves, and customers are talking but not buying. In his book Reality Check , Guy Kawasaki summarizes some of the key issues. Or the economy has taken a sudden turn for the worse, so your high-end product no longer has a market.

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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

Even non-profits need a profitable business model to offset staff and operating costs. Assume passion level defines business opportunity. The real secrets of any business domain are not intuitively obvious, nor available in books. Marketing should start before product development.