December 2009

Customer Development Proceeds in Parallel with Product Development

Steve Blank had a great post today “Building a Company with Customer Data, Why Metrics Are Not Enough” that highlights the need–even for Web Startups–to get out of the BatCave and talk to strangers who may be potential prospects. Engineers in particular can feel that this is not as productive a use of their time …

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Two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts Added Mon-Dec-28 & Wed-Dec-30

We have added two Holiday Bootstrapper Breakfasts in the week between Christmas and New Years. This year Christmas and New Years fell on the fourth Friday and first Friday of the month which collided with two regularly scheduled breakfasts (which have been canceled). Which means that we will have a total of four breakfasts in …

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Tips For A Startup’s Early Press Releases

We use eReleases which distributes over PR newswire for about half the price ($400). See http://www.ereleases.com/submit.html for details, we have been working with them for more than two years and been very pleased. Press releases are not appropriate for every startup’s marketing communication: you need to make sure that you have the right message before …

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