Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He With a bit of research it turned out that a professor at Brown University had invented something close to what we had in mind.

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North Carolina Silicon Valley Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE 125

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Would love to get in touch.

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Heres what it looked like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Establish a customer advisory board. Hand pick a dozen customers who "get" your vision. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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