Customer Development Product Development Retention Silicon Valley 
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talented product developers. Consider the superb results companies are getting from this new way of thinking about customers: - Customer salespeople achieved, in effect, 80 percent close rates for Salesforce.com , which was key in growing their business in the face of much bigger, better-funded competitors. -
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot? Is that good?
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maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. It all depends on where you’re at. Google won’t care.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Great for visualizing work of product development. Customer Development. Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. SW Courses.
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