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You Negotiate Commodities, But You Seize Opportunities

Steve Blank

Advisory Board. In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. For lots of reasons that never worked out, but I liked him so much that the following year I tried to hire him as the VP of Engineering of Ardent. (He

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

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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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish a customer advisory board. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Advisory Board. 8220; His three things (worth reading his whole post anyway) are set vision/strategy and communicate broadly, recruit/hire/retain top talent, and make sure there’s enough cash in the bank.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. The hardest part of entrepreneurship is to develop the judgment to know when its time to change direction and when its time to stay the course. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle.

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How To Build a Web Development Team Without Technical Expertise

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Startup Advice: Lessons Learned from Building a Development Team View What links here Posted by Fan Bi on July 19th, 2009 Over the past few months, I’ve explored a bunch of different ways to develop a website without a web developer on the Blank Label team. It turned out to be a terrible decision. Originally.