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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

He was using 3 rd parties to build his app but he had no expertise on how to manage external developers. 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. Having a coder as part of the founding team is essential.

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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. Set up the logistics to manage your team. Get customers to the site. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. some came from our customer service, some were to improve performance / scalability from tech ops, some were bug fixes, etc.) and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when.

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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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The maker/manager transition phase

joel.is

The maker/manager transition phase. Paul Graham has a fantastic article on the topic of scheduling work as a maker and as a manager , which I’ve drawn insights from and I know many others have too. I wanted to share my experience of dealing with the transition from maker to manager. The maker/manager split.