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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) So what’s wrong the product development model?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Blame it On Marketing In the next 3-6 months, a new VP of Sales is hired. The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part 3) « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development startup) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)links for 2009-09-01links for 2009-08-13links for 2009-07-11Categories and Tags [.]

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When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”)

bhargreaves.com

Most disturbingly, I’ve occasionally found myself agreeing with an entrepreneur’s decision to hire a development shop to build their product. You probably aren’t the best person to hire and manage a developer. In this case, going through a hiring process is not an option. Sometimes, it just makes sense.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#

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Facebook Consulting Australia: hire my services

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

– Contact me at aymeric[at]wiselabs.net if you are interested in hiring me for some Facebook consulting. We didnt take them, they are a random sampling of the most popular photos on Flickr with the tag nature. Type some stuff in the box, click save, and your new about section shows up in the footer.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups « Steve Blank (tags: startup product-management strategy) [.]

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