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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Not testing these hypotheses upfront is a fundamental and, in many cases, fatal error most startups make. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.] before you ship. customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.)

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Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design

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An agile approach with responsive design considers these issues from the start, but will require more upfront wireframing, design and testing that are omitted in the waterfall process. and tagged with. POPULAR TAGS. POPULAR TAGS. Home | Features | Trends | Best of RWW | Archives. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb.

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A Part-Time CTO - In-House or Outsource?

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Archive Jun 20th Sun In-House or Outsource? Flexibility - You won’t need to commit to something, either cash, equity or involving other people, upfront. Lack Of Communication - Typically there is a very “over the wall&# approach to development where you specify requirements upfront and they give you what you specify.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

This overlay adds another upfront risk (technical risk) that needs to be squeezed out first, if necessary. “While one could argue that biotech startups also face market risk, their first decade is dominated by whether the science will work.&# Great quote. Customer development is about squeezing out risks in the right order.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

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c) Do you already have clients willing to pay upfront for your product to see it get built? Tags: startupcto. links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

This was upfront and center for anyone who walked into my office could see what I thought was important. We listed the editors, writers, what they had previously had written, deadlines, what the competitive products were, how our benchmarks stacked up, what “upgrades” our boards needed from engineering to win, etc.

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Building a sweat equity team

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Jason Thursday, October 09, 2008 Deleting … Approving … Join the nextNY mailing list, and check out our archives where this has been beaten to death over and over. Id definitely be upfront about what happens if you have disagreements, what to do if a partner wants to leave (or be a douche), etc. The gist: 1.