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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Reply links for 2009-09-07 « Blarney Fellow , on September 7, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

Real-time points and mileage redemption appeared at the POS, first introduced over a decade ago and now going mainstream. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc. Inflation: The Next Big Opportunity? While all this was true, something else was going on.

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10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version)

crowdSPRING Blog

Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, the leading startup incubator, and the essays on his blog providethought-leadership on topics as varied as startup funding, marketing, and life lived well. Not that it is fictional in any wayIt should be at once intriguing, provocative, and entertaining. This is what I get when I read Paul Graham.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (..)

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Digital Marketing And Analytics: Two Ladders For Magnificent Success

Occam's Razor

One day your leadership realizes you stink at digital (all of it or just Facebook or search and display or mobile or whatever). Some of your micro-outcomes were likely already connected to your offline existence (maps, phone calls, offer redemptions, etc.). In other words: Evolution.

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Twitter Link Roundup #284 – Late Summer Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

But back now to reality, and I some small measure of redemption, because it’s time for the set of links and articles that we shared with you over the past week on our crowdSPRING Twitter account (as well as my own Twitter account )!

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Product Development Model , Startups , Steve Blank « Retirement and Redemption Out of the Ashes – Something Isn’t Quite Right » 4 Responses Alexa Gregory , on March 20, 2009 at 11:26 pm (..)