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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

These salesmen used their insight into what their customers really needed to make the sale and then deliver something of even greater value. They are gaining valuable customer data. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. More important that you learn Django or whatever advanced web framework your team will be using. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ?

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

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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

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Non of this academic stuff. Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. Hope that helps.

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Note: in a non-tech environment these would be R&D, product development, and sales/marketing.