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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. 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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. . Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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Lessons Learned: Lean hiring tips

Startup Lessons Learned

I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Particularly the Continuous Deployment and Split testing posts.

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Gov 2.0 Summit wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

whorunsgov : Eric Ries: Startups fail not because the technology works, but because no one wants the tech. g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Its natural at a gathering like this to focus on new technology and applications. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

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Maybe location-specific "channels"? I'm a technology hacker in exactly the searching situation you mention; having just come to the end of the setup of my current venture and looking for the next challenge. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. July 31, 2009 11:16 AM BillSeitz said.