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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Dave McClure’s AARRR metrics and Andrew Chen ‘s specifics on freemium models, viral marketing, user acquisition and engagement both offer examples of exit criteria for Customer Discovery and Validation for startups on the web. Eric and I will be working on others. As for #3. I agree completely.

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Startup Tools

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What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework? Reply Roman Gaponov , on February 28, 2011 at 1:50 am said: Steve, Very interesting list of resources. Reply steveblank , on February 28, 2011 at 2:01 am said: added Django.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Web Development Tools. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital. About VC Cafe. Use Sendgrid!