Remove Customer Development Remove Lean Remove PR Remove Stock Options
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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. I think I might be able to speed things up, especially now that everybody always talks about the book The Lean Startup. Edwin: There are a million others. Jason: There’s a million, but people love them. Why not get a partner?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success.