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Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. Too often salespeople may “hoard” their prize references, fencing them off from big opportunities to promote or close business for you.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

He turned his PhD thesis into a killer product, got it funded and now was CEO of a company of 30. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. We’re building the wrong product!” ” “A pivot is a substantive change to one or more of components to your business model.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

and “Does our solution (a product, a website or an app) solve the problem in a compelling way?” Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. No startup can afford to build a product with every feature a mainstream customer needs all at once. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.