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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

Similarly, an e-commerce retailer believes they need the domain name, shopping cart solution, and inventory to start their business. After the product’s developed, the startup employes marketing to get attention, Sales to close deals, and perhaps a Director of Customer Service to field customer issues. image source.

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The Ultimate Guide to Entrepreneurship

Hubspot

Luckily, there are all sorts of things you can do invite luck: Lucky people network. Many businesses that are now household names — like Airbnb and Uber — took multiple launches to succeed. Online retail has a fraction of the overhead of a brick-and-mortar location. Set yourself up for luck. Lucky people pitch often.

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The Ultimate Guide to Startup Accelerators

Hubspot

Office space, administrative and legal support, business planning, prototyping, and product development. Seed funding, mentorship from industry experts, and networking. Do you have a minimum viable product (MVP)? Relationships and networking. What kind of community and network can each accelerator offer you?

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

You build something quickly, a minimum viable product. And so we started Twilio to solve the problem with bringing communications out of its legacy, which is in hardware and physical networks and bringing it into its future, which is software. In 2010, just two years later, we launched our second product: Twilio SMS.