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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. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think? My mother is 86 years old.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Chances also increase if there seems to be a Ruby bent to the content. Lean Start-up SlideShare prez at Web 2.0 This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Cliff Dailey This is a great post. If I were starting a company like that, I would recognize that technology is one of the key risks (for most web startups, it isn't). Thanks a lot for writing. davetomback Great post.

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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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Customer Discovery Tools for Lean Startups | Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

ABingo If you are writing your application in Ruby on Rails, you can integrate more complex split tests straight from your code. Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. MixPanel is about tracking events and cohorts in your web application (in real time). What are they looking for in your website?

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