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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

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. he’d declare. “We We got to pivot now.” Find a Brainstorm Buddy.

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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.). A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.”

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

They can be relied on for feedback and initial sales; they’ll tell others about the product and spread the word that the vision is real. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) First. Use the Business Model Canvas as the Customer Discovery Scorecard.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Simple online team or personal kanban board. Great for visualizing work of product development. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? business planning.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months. Advisory boards never amount to much.