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Making Sure You Are Ready to Begin Building Your MVP

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What's Going to Go Wrong A lot of founders don't really understand Lean Startup principles. They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. This post will provide links to participants as well as to readers.

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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

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Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development? billion dollar mistake. billion dollar mistake.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

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My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get 6 Ways to Find A Technical Co-Founder Places to Find Developers in Exchange for Sweat Equity How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea Bootstrapping a Lean Startup Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Finding Your Co-Founders CTO Equity - Negotiation After Funding Startup CTO Salary (..)

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Thirty more articles related to this: How To Calculate Sweat Equity - Get Venture: Venture Made Transparent , February 11, 2010 How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst , July 19, 2010 When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) - Brad Hargreaves , March 7, 2010 Make Sure Sweat Equity Vests - Get Venture: Venture Made (..)

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

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" and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. By the way, this works just fine if you happen to already be talking to the expert. By the way, if the person tells you that you should talk to a particular person then please say, that's great, "could you introduce me?"

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

" and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. By the way, this works just fine if you happen to already be talking to the expert. By the way, if the person tells you that you should talk to a particular person then please say, that's great, "could you introduce me?"