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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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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.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

This is lean development without any customer development. All these factors combined make it more likely for a single coder to create a one-time hit. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The focus is on building. Recent examples include Blindtype , Hipster or About.me.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. The above would make sense if one is unable to afford or obtain coders period.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). I don't think it's enough to have a business guy and a coder.

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