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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Organization, Communities or Associations they Belong to That Help Support Their Business

Hearpreneur

11- Architectural professional group Photo Credit: Claudia Torres Your CV will appear better, and you'll have the chance to network with other people who work in the architecture field if you join a professional club for architects. Thanks to Michael Dodd, Planning hub ! #11- Thanks to Claudia Torres, TheFab20s ! #12-

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

And the rule was we weren’t changing anything about the product architecture until Ben and I agreed. Second, that he needed to recognize that changing the value proposition – the features of the products/services he was offering – was a lot more traumatic for a startup than changing other parts of the business model. .”

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Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps

andrewchenblog.com

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. You can invite them to be part of a 'customer advisory board&# that you can gather informal feedback from everything from company policies to new products.