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How The IBM PC Made Me Appreciate Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. Despite a valiant effort, we only briefly succeeded in putting IBM in the personal computer business, but our efforts changed my view of entrepreneurs forever.

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Remote Work in the Time of COVID-19

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…suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. In an instant, remote work went from a small Silicon Valley trend to a ubiquitous element of daily life. It’s easy to vet Silicon Valley hires.

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A Guide to Grow Your Tech Startup

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While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Positioned as an expert mobile development team, Applabz turns conceptual ideas into tangible, cutting-edge mobile solutions. Focus on Customer Satisfaction Word of mouth travels fast.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. What is customer development?

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Episode 4: Signs You Need a Manager, Online Tools for Startups, and Our TV and Podcast Top Picks

Up and Running

Jonathan: Silicon Valley (HBO). I think you and this is … Not to get too mad at here, but you is you the entrepreneur, you the CEO, the business owner, so you the listener. Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Tweet or email us with one we should check out.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?