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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. Let me give one small example.

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Critical Considerations for a Startup Advisory Board

Startup Professionals Musings

By Bob Arciniaga In developing the content for this article, it was very apparent this advice is not only critical for startups but for most companies. A properly built advisory board can be a huge strategic advantage to any company. How do you avoid the advisory board death spiral? Select the right board member.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

www.instigatorblog.com

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

By developing innovating technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. We are a nonpartisan, bipartisan startup of concerned Americans. Q: What have you built so far?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

By developing innovative technologies and taking a new approach, we believe that we can find alignment across various institutional and individual stakeholders with the means to leverage their networks and effectively push for progress. We are a nonpartisan, bipartisan startup of concerned Americans. Q: What have you built so far?

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Best of Breed

thebarefootvc

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board. Fast forward to 2013. Best of breed solutions have exponentially multiplied, in both the enterprise and consumer sectors.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help.

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