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The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation

by Steve Blank

Jul 22, 2010·~7 minutes·1 chapter

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Steve Blank The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation

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Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Here’s an example in a direct sales channel. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch A VC asked me to have lunch with the CEO of a startup building cloud-based enterprise software.

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~7 minutes (6K characters)

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Jul 22, 2010