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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, I would love to be on your advisory board.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Establish a customer advisory board. Hand pick a dozen customers who "get" your vision. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. Similarly, product development leverage refers to situations in which our own work is fortified by the work of outsiders. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Eric, great post.

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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.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Seed Startups.