Dorf also answered questions from participants, such as ways to find customers and get initial funding.
But the curious abroad should come to China's slopes to find customers, not corduroy snow or caffe latte.
To see why, consider a credit-card firm that wants to find customers online.
The mentors also helped PlanGrid find customers and hire executives and sales people.
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Until such saviors arrive, IPOs in these post-bubble days will have to do old-fashioned work: Find customers and book sales.
While the larger franchises do help the credibility gap inherent with new businesses, franchisees do need to find customers of their own.
And if the market isn't buying, and capitalists aren't funding, the message is simple: You must find customers, find investors or close your doors.
Walk into any gold shop, at any time of the year, and you are bound to find customers choosing a gold bracelet or biscuit.
Not only did Driver help behind the counter, he loaded up four carrying cases and he and his three new friends set out to find customers.
Alcatel Lucent may find it challenging initially to find customers for its core routers considering the strong grip that Cisco and Juniper have over the industry.
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Mr Avery asks where Boeing would go to find customers.
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Hosting sports events is a way not only to fill seats on the weekend, but find customers during the day, and on weeknights, typically dead times for the theater business.
And it was only then that the real work began, because Neal then had to work to apply for loans, find investors, find customers who would believe his improbable pitch.
The lawsuits against Chu and Kish are the first civil cases filed by SIIA against suspected pirates who find customers by sending e-mail to people who bid on software at Web auction sites.
Failure to provide good customer service or a good product at this stage often results in a decrease in the customer base, forcing the entrepreneur back to step one to find customers to purchase their product.
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However, instead of looking for a customer whose name you might easily recognize, I believe it is more important to find customers who are building their brands by differentiating their company based on providing cutting edge customer care.
Figuring out how much money is needed for a company to meet its goals requires a sobering view of how quickly it can complete the research-and-development phase and find customers who are willing to give its technology a try.
There are two objectives: to find customers willing to sign long-term contracts for coal from Galilee and to rope in a couple of large buyers as strategic investors, says Mudit Parashar, senior vice president of corporate development, who works closely with Reddy.
Particularly with Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) involved: The Redmond, Wash. monopolist made a big early move to try to impose a standard for digital ID, offering a crude version of its Passport service in 1999. (Novell had the digital identity idea even earlier but couldn't find customers).
And when a company defeats its customers' expectations, it will find its customers going elsewhere.
On the other hand, it increases output so they have to find new customers or endure debilitating price cuts.
But ultimately the firm wants to find outside customers for its research findings.
The firm has begun doing text analytics of call center records (text analytics) to find additional customers likely to leave based on interaction patterns.
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Every company has three things to do: find their customers, keep them, and grow them, said Bob Dorf to participants at the Boot Camp.
You find your customers, design your questions, and then ask away.
Iran hopes to find new customers to replace refiners unable to buy its oil due to the planned European embargo, but the list of potential buyers is shrinking.
For starters, where do you find the customers?
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You may feel attached to your business idea and wish to change nothing about it, but after conducting a survey maybe you find that customers are looking for a slightly different service or additional features.
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"We look at it as a business opportunity to find new customers and form new relationships with retailers, " said Siriano, the youngest designer to win "Project Runway" or land on Crain's 40 Under 40 list.
One California hotel manager recently called to redeem her card, he says, confessing that she nabbed 20 business cards from a fishbowl in the lobby of nearby rival La Quinta in an attempt to find prospective customers.
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