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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). How To Get There.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. Great for visualizing work of product development. aggregation. Customer Development. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses.