Customer Development PR White Paper 
Steve Blank
APRIL 9, 2009
To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Wait a minute, what about the rest of Customer Development ? Aren’t you going to validate your hypotheses by first getting some customers?”. Now I was confused, and I asked, “Well what do you guys believe – Customer Development or launch on a schedule?” Filed under: Ardent , Customer Development.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Here’s how I learned why they were critical to successful customer development. I was an aggressive, young and a very tactical VP of marketing at Ardent , a supercomputer company – who really hadn’t a clue about the relationship between profound beliefs, customer discovery and strategy.
Steve Blank
APRIL 2, 2009
Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them. Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.) Theoretically, that’s why I hired them.
www.rocketwatcher.com
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
For example I’ve seen folks track branded organic searches (where the person came to the site by searching on your company or product name) against a “pr&# lead source. There are also other thing to think about. It all depends on what programs you are running and how you want to measure the overlap. April Amrita Reply 13.
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