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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

With an out-of-this-world business plan. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. This business plan was a static document.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002. Read the rest. Read the rest.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She is recognized as a design and innovation leader in high-impact and philanthropy product development. This was a chance that she took in 2002, when she merged her realtors with two successful real estate companies in order to establish this company. Website: talentculture.com. Lea Woodward. Website: leawoodward.com.