Advisory Board CTO Hire Customer Development Early Stage 
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. 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.
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