Where is it okay to cross-reference a customer?
Tellingly, iZettle cites a car service company also as a reference customer for its SDK.
The reference to CRM is a customer relationship management system - used by sales departments to track advertiser details and spending.
Passport then acts as a reference point so if a customer has any questions about his or her package, they are fielded by Passport.
In fact, Mesosphere mentioned a reference customer running 50,000 nodes on DCOS, and they believe they can scale to 500,000 nodes by the end of next year.
Agencies sponsor challenges, and startups compete to be the best at solving that challenge, potentially winning hundreds of thousands of dollars and a reference customer.
The clips are being sold "under the counter", according to the newspaper, to people who come with a customer's "reference", and also via social media.
Each vendor will appreciate the feedback when a customer identifies a false-positive reference, and we urge customers to contact the vendor when such reference has been identified so they can remove it from the product data sheet.
With the second method, the customer can reference a location even if they're not physically there — which would be helpful in the case of making reservations or placing a to-go order at a restaurant, for instance.
The application form used to include a requirement to: "...Demonstrate a customer need for this integration through references from mutual customers.
Yet, intrinsically storytelling is critical to their success - in fundraising, closing the first reference customer, or convincing a team member to join you absent a healthy balance sheet.
