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How to Survive Four Common Worst Case Scenarios

Startup Professionals Musings

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

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Four Common Startup Issues Which Threaten Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

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Worst Case Survival Guide for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics. Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish a customer advisory board. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Let them connect with each other, but also with you.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

We walked them through what we thought would be the major application of our product. We walked them through what we thought would be the major application of our product. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ▼ October (7) A real Customer Advisory Board Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback.

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Startup Tools

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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

free, distributed source code control management system. Simple online team or personal kanban board. Great for visualizing work of product development. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Pivotal Tracker â?? Mercurial â?? Preceden â??