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Episode 4: Signs You Need a Manager, Online Tools for Startups, and Our TV and Podcast Top Picks

Up and Running

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Peter: You might want a manager who then takes care of, let’s say, the marketing team and the development team separately, when in the past, that was a single person. Fun show overall.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

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In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Team with co-workers at your current job or that internship you did last summer. So is ultimate frisbee.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. He is responsible for bringing in revenue from advertising and their careers offering. What is the best reporting structure for an engineering team.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.