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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

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework? Web Development Tools: Sendgrid [link] – Sends transactional email (signed up, forgot password, notifications) on behalf of you application. Reply Roman Gaponov , on February 28, 2011 at 1:50 am said: Steve, Very interesting list of resources.