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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers? And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

The viral nature of social media no doubt aided this growth, as did improvements in the online shopping experience. The list goes on; given the challenges of current education institutions in the US and abroad (high cost, limited distribution), technology coupled with strong content can help make quality education available to all.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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How Much Do SaaS Companies Spend on Their MVPs?

ConversionXL

For this article, we asked 14 SaaS CEOs a simple question: “How much did you spend on your MVP before you had your first dollar of revenue?”. The MVP took around four months to build, during which time the company earned no revenue. They then spent the first year qualifying the product and testing out their revenue model.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

The only blog post I had ever written went viral in 2014. I set up my business to be distributed, so although my company is based out of Scottsdale, Arizona, I live in Thailand most of the time. This all happened at a time when the internet was evolving into what we now know as the World Wide Web. Eventually, I left.

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270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

endeve – Issue invoices, manage clients and check revenues all in one place. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

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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? Today's "Minimum Viable Product" *must* have scalability / capacity planning and security baked in, *not* postponed until revenue starts to come in.