Cofounder Customer Development Database Design 
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. MIT Start Lab. Harvard iLab.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) Founder Too. An Epiphany.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Massive proprietary databases? I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody. I dont think so. Great piece!
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Do you have a bug database? I love Joels approach to usability, and I still recommend his free online book on UI design. Usability design is a highly iterative process, and the more customers who are involved (via in-person interview, split-test experiment, etc) the better. Do you fix bugs before writing code?
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job. If you find yourself now spending time with customers, learning and guiding the learning of your whole company, you were probably right that the pager was getting in the way.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 20, 2010
As a good student of startup theory, especially modern theories of customer development, this time I was methodical and purposeful. Problem was, this system was hacked together over two years: a mish-mash of spreadsheets, Perl scripts, API-calls, manual exports, Excel spreadsheets, and Access databases. ?It And it worked.
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