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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

This week, our first team up was PersonalLibraries (the team that had software to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.) Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.? They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains.

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Hectic Holiday Season: 10 Tips For Rolling Out The Red Carpet For Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

In fact, in today’s market, there is a direct correlation between service and sales. Let them know what they can do without asking, and when they need to escalate a problem to the manager. Now is not the time for managers and other leaders to hide in their office. But it certainly is not the time slack off on service.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. He shepards you through a sales process and the family nets about $390 million after taxes. They didn't care about you when you needed commercial credit, but now--now they want to manage your money.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Autonomow team members: Jorge Heraud (MS Management, 2011) Business Unit Director, Agriculture, Trimble Navigation, Director of Engineering, Trimble Navigation, MS&E (Stanford), MSEE (Stanford), BSEE (PUCP, Peru). Dollar size of deals is sufficient to be profitable with direct sales strategy. in Control Systems. Personal Libraries.

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2 Real Time-Saving Hacks That Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

When Bill Gates was asked by a student at Nebraska State what superpower he would want to have, Gates famously replied, “Being able to read super-fast”. If you are able to eliminate less technical, time-consuming tasks such as proofreading, email management/filtering and calendar management you can often free up half of your working day.

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Transcript of Business Lessons Learned on the Baseball Field

Duct Tape Marketing

I mean, there’s plenty of business in every sports franchise at every level from the corporate sales and the suites or the tickets to the marketing and on and on. How would you say that that element of managing the wins and losses and the emotional roller coaster, the sort of ultimate, did we make it to the World Series?

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Jason Colodne of Colbeck Capital Interviews Energy Ventures Analysis’ Emily Medine

The Startup Magazine

In this interview, Jason Colodne , Managing Partner at Colbeck Capital Management, speaks with Emily Medine, Principle in the coal practice at Energy Ventures Analysis (EVA), to discuss the historical changes in the industry, the challenges that the industry faces today, and where she finds hope for the future of the industry.