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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

This article will examine one vital activity and see how trained VAs can help your company improve sales. These long cycles often include a large quantity of cold calls, with the main goal is to filler out quality leads from the bad ones. Assistance with sales reports. Contacting new leads. Live chat on social media.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Party rounds blew up on a number of startups who found it difficult to get ongoing operational support from investors who didn’t have time or inclination to lean in. Word of mouth spreads faster and sales cycles are shorter.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. They are closing orders.

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How a Virtual Assistant can Help Startup Make More Sales

ReadWriteStart

This article will examine one vital activity and see how trained VAs can help your company improve sales. These long cycles often include a large quantity of cold calls, with the main goal is to filler out quality leads from the bad ones. Assistance with sales reports. Contacting new leads. Live chat on social media.

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Using Lean Six Sigma to End Baffling Business Problems

The Startup Magazine

For instance, a dip in sales in a week might appear problematic, but then when sales pick up the next week, it’s safe to assume the problem was a mere aberration in your sales cycle. For instance– returning to our sales example– the dip in sales in a week may extend into the next week.

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