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Twitter Link Roundup #170 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. 14 New Free Fonts – [link]. Great New Typography Design Inspiration – 51 Examples – [link].

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, by making this button green, did more people click on it? That green button was part of a customer flow, a series of actions you want customers to complete for some business reason. And we were fortunate to have Steve Blank , the originator of customer development, on our board to keep us honest.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.

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Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. I had a big advantage, because Steve Blank , the father of customer development, got to see the failure up close and personal too as an investor and board member.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Steve Blank

Granite mountains and alpine green meadows during the day, unblinking stars in the frigid August nights. Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. If you’re doing Customer Development /Lean Startup, Shawn is a great guy to have as an investor.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It runs all the automated tests youve written, and keeps track of the results. Take a look and let me know what you think.