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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Read Business Model Generation pages 1-72, and The Four Steps to the Epiphany Chapter 3. Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Those who don’t make it into the class are offered a variety of on- and off-line tools, including government-funded translations of Steve’s nine-part Udacity.com Customer Development lectures , excerpts from the Startup Owner’s Manual in Spanish, and they’ve translated a long list of Code Academy courses and other tools as well.

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Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora!

Steve Blank

Those who don’t make it into the class are offered a variety of on- and off-line tools, including government-funded translations of Steve’s nine-part Udacity.com Customer Development lectures , excerpts from the Startup Owner’s Manual in Spanish, and they’ve translated a long list of Code Academy courses and other tools as well.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Your existing customers are you best source of referals – just ask. No investor cares about a business plan. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? They care about real product.