Who Are The Customers For Your Startup?
Written by
Kin Lane
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Silicon Valley builds amazing apps!
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We need customers to use our apps
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Hopefully we get lots of customers who use our apps!
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We can also launch an API, and become a platform
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Now we have developers as customers
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Now we have our developers customers as customers
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We need $$ to operate and scale our platform, APIs and apps
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Now we add investors as our customers
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Our investors want us to give them ROI with a good exit
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Now we have other larger companies as potential customers
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Who is the customer of your startup?
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