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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

And when he’d get a positive response he’d show them his first minimal viable product – the mockup he had created of the User Interface in PowerPoint. But I’m having a hard time getting to my next minimal viable product. While I have all this great feedback on my visual mockups I can’t iterate my product. Lessons Learned.

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Too Many Bells and Whistles Will Not Sell a Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Technical entrepreneurs love to compare the number of features in their product to competitors, and they love to keep adding features -- just because they can. Even worse, this “feature creep” often makes the final product late to market, sluggish and more expensive than competition.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. I think he totally nails it. What do you think?

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Case Study: Lean UX at work

Startup Lessons Learned

Jeff has been promoting the use of Lean UX as an effective method to spur greater innovation, quality and productivity in startups as well as within teams in larger organizations. Originally a waterfall shop, we transitioned to Agile development about two years ago. A dedicated User Experience (UX) designer is assigned to this team.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

2) Making high-quality products available to the public. Products that have in the bottle what they say on the outside with 3rd party testing to prove it. My gifts lie in film and television production, so honoring Him through faith-based movies and television shows is the best way I know to reflect His glory in business.