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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

iPhone & iPad #distribution #ormaybemarketing # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 2: Partner with someone with an established distribution channel, ie. toolbars in browsers #distribution # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 1: Have a core part of your product become more useful with friends, ie.

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Startup Resources

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A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Great for visualizing work of product development. Legal Wiki â??

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish credibility with potential partners. In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. Dont scale.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. And this is true outside of games.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

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