Conversion CTO Hire Customer Development Early Stage 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He We were painting a picture of hypertext on every desktop computer. The response from across the country?
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. He writes: The premises of this conversation are very complicated.
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Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. At the time, we didn’t have a sales pipeline yet or revenues coming into the firm.
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
Smart teams understand quickly that all three skills are essential - if you can't recognize the need, you won't be able to hire for it or value it. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Nine times out of ten, the meeting ends with them asking me for introductions to VCs. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product.
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. However, I do spend a lot of time daydreaming. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."
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