www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Is there a junior or senior developer from a previous gig who will respect you for a previous role and be ready to build their own baby with you? So, while you’re slaving away on your customer development while keeping an eye out for your technical match, you could do worse than read Paul Graham’s 2007 essay, How not to die.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If we accept the verdict of customers instead of pundits, I think these claims are easy to dismiss. 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. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see.

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joel.is

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

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. Meetings cost them more.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. You’ve probably heard them far too often bragging about how close they are to signing customer X, who happens to be a publicly listed NASDAQ company. So far, they’ve passed the legal department of our customers without any problems.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. Acqusition competition is how new apps get new customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. It is simply getting customers. And by the transitive property, anything that gets customers is marketing. […] Welcome to growth hacking. shares) and finally takes the term “growth hacking” from obscure to mainstream.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. We used those five dollars to buy 100 clicks, every single day, in the hopes that some of those people would become paying customers. We started to put in simple data probes at each of these key stages in our customers usage of the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

How many people - coders - do you think a small startup with a 6mm pages/month site should have? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Fear is the mind-killer More video "what to do if customers don't like you. but Im always short in hands.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Talk to your customers. Your existing customers are you best source of referals – just ask.

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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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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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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). 4 votes by Cai Chen , George Aspland , Raphael Cockx and David Yousling There is no such thing as perfect and it depends on the nature of the business: The customers, the products and the market. There is too much of a gap in between.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers. In fact, there are so many of these propaganda pieces that this question might naturally cross your mind: if listening to customers is so great, why do we need so much propaganda? We did not take this step lightly.

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