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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

channel partners and Chinese manufacturers and customer acquisition and activation programs outside their home country. And as good as the Australian angel investors have been, there still is dearth of serious follow-on funding in Australia. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Clypd – Video Advertising (backed by Atlas, DataPoint, Boston Seed). Gridco Systems – Power Distribution Systems (backed by General Catalyst and Northbridge). Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

WHATS HOT: EVENTS NEWS LEARN CAREER VIDEOS ESPAÑOL. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket. Angel Investors.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Noah Parsons says, “Start with cheap mockups, wireframes, or even sketches on paper to make sure that your customers are going to want what you build.”. Including software prototypes, MVPs come in many flavors, including: Explainer videos. Building the Minimum Viable Product by Eric Ries [YouTube video]. Wireframes.