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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. I would love to be on your advisory board.

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Five Things to Consider When Selecting Advisors for Your Startup

scalablestartup.berkeley.edu

By the time you start recruiting a particular candidate, he or she may already be a member of other startup advisory boards. A company can have more than one advisory board. While such startups typically form a single advisory board, in most cases the company’s executives meet with each advisor individually.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Advisory Board. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. Collusion - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 22, 2010 Mike Arrington posted about a secret meeting of angels and super angels in San Francisco the other night.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. More than anything, it forced us to take advantage of necessity, the mother of invention. Heres what it looked like. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Establish a customer advisory board. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Bring your questions.