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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

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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. One of the problems they run into is building a web site. Step 3: Website Logistics. Step 4: Build a Low-Fidelity Web Site.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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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. Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) There is too much of a gap in between.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. have you heard of any luck using outsourced coders from India … or where do you suggest ? I am trying to target potential customers (web developers) with ads on Facebook but I’m getting zero click thrus.