Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
As he was learning from potential customers and providers he would ask, “What if we could have an app that allowed you to schedule low cost moves?” And that he could identify the resources needed, (outsourced contract developers who could build it for him) and he would hire a partner to do so. Customer Development Technology'
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?
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www.kernelmag.com
MARCH 8, 2012
in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? Since then, I’ve had to pay a grand total of $4.88 The Talent Squeeze. In short, talent.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2009
In practice, how developers respond to this dilemma is determined by their incentives, which are driven by the culture of their team. Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders.
joel.is
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Meetings cost them more. The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Here’s a key part of it: One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they’re on a different type of schedule from other people.
www.women2.org
MARCH 8, 2012
After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”
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