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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. One of the problems they run into is building a web site. Step 3: Website Logistics. Step 1: Set Up Team Logistics.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Become a Web Developer from Scratch!

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

www.quora.com

" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

These are the geniuses clogging up Craigslist’s “Computer Gigs&# with ads saying stuff like “Need iPhone Developer: Compensation: 30% of profits (when we get them)&# or “Ruby on Rails ROCKSTAR needed: $20/hr&# [link] Nils Noack Definitely a good read! Looking forward to reading your next post! How To Get There.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. Although Ive enjoyed learning and using other platforms/languages, its the fact that PHP has grown around building websites rather than satisfying the intellectual needs of Computer Science researchers. the list goes on).

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Ruby Toolbox. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Sinatra : Super easy to use, the only drawback is that you have to learn ruby setup your database. s free, supports ruby, nodejs, static files, and a few other languages. Web frameworks.