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Startup Lessons Learned

For example, a recent event I held started with a customer validation exercise (actually, this example is fictionalized for clarity). I had it all set up to a jury-rigged SurveyMonkey - PayPal minimum viable product. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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Unintended Lessons

Steve Blank

And I remember staying in everything from little motels to big hotels and resorts, from National parks in Alaska to trips in India. Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) + The Customer Development… (Read more)+ Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.” Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. were born in India. of total entrepreneurs born in China and India is not even close to what entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley looks like.

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

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what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The problem is that many programmers have loads of talent with no product sense and business students have great designs with no way to implement them. Programmers feel exploited when they build out a product that is successful but are reluctant to admit they wouldn’t have been able to design the product themselves.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. It also doesnt make sense to design your app for scalability from the start, since you may have to create many iterations before you find a version that requires any scalability at all. 21comments: Imran said.

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

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" => 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 Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer).