Boston Cofounder Customer Development Team Review 
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. That frees up even more development resources, and so on.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 13, 2009
He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review!
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Talking to potential customers and competitors customers.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. In the old model of Israeli startups, many Israeli executive teams would hire a vice president of sales in the U.S. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. Imagine you are crossing the street.
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