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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you use software like LivePlan, you can create this initial “lean plan” in under an hour and then spend your time where it really matters—on validating your idea.

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

This required convincing software vendors to move their applications to our unique machine architecture. Oh, and we had no installed customer base. I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. – was his job.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. Campaign Monitor. Code Igniter.

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Startup Tools

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SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions.

Steve Blank

Within these applications how did our customers spend their day? And since the card was useless without any application software, what other software products did they use on it? What reviews did they trust? No one remembered our ads, saw our reviews or had read a positive article about us. Which ones?

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

It needs to be more mature, so let’s focus on the small-sized companies where my ideal customer and the people that pull out credit cards is in general the CEO. Jason: And to me, trying to replace someone’s to-do software or their actual organization software? They’re doing something else by that point.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. For example, the best book reviewers only review books published by the best publishers, which only accept manuscripts from the best agents. And how could they possibly review a blog? Is that a lot? Is that good?