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7 Steps to Getting Your Startup Story Right

Rajesh Setty

Ideally, you should find a missing piece of the puzzle that will complete something important for your target audience. Some entrepreneurs quip back citing examples from Alexander Graham Bell to Steve Jobs who could not or did not do market research respectively but went ahead with amazing innovations. How do you do this? All the best!

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The New Psychology of Business Models

Ask Atma

for business models draws on the work of several very bright entrepreneurs and thinkers, including: Alex Osterwalder, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, and Ash Maurya. What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. In this article, my description of management 3.0

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Which Social Network Makes Your Customers Buy?

Harvard Business Review

They have marketing departments retaining outside social media consultants. They pay content marketing firms to write company blogs and produce YouTube videos. While social platforms like Facebook and Twitter are massively popular, they're so topically diffuse that they can be poor places to target and market products to your audience.

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Start-Ups Need a Minimum Viable Brand

Harvard Business Review

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market. what we believe in – our defining values.

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Build Your Reputation the Rachael Ray Way

Harvard Business Review

One minute, you've never heard of Eric Ries , and the next he's on the cover of Inc. Ray, too, had her own immersion experience, albeit in Albany, New York, where she started as a food buyer for a gourmet market, eventually teaching 30 minute cooking classes when they couldn't find a chef who would accept their low rates.