Advisory Board Business Model Cofounder Product Development 
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2013
There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2012
What I saw reminded me of some of the best and worst things I did as a founder. We’re building the wrong product!” Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was.
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ReadWriteStart
JUNE 20, 2012
Customer discovery turns founders’ initial hypotheses about their market and customers into facts. These visionary customers will give the company the feedback necessary to add features to the product over time. Enthusiasts who spread the good news about your product to friends, family or co-workers are often called evangelists.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.
betashop.com
OCTOBER 8, 2012
I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. But, you can iterate and iterate on features, but you cannot iterate your way to a business model. It’s that important.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
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.
www.vccafe.com
MARCH 11, 2013
.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Simple online team or personal kanban board. Great for visualizing work of product development. Founder Equity Issues. Acunote â??
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