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I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you.

Steve Blank

To get to this Transition stage, the company needed passionate visionaries who can articulate a compelling vision, agile enough to learn and discover in real time, resilient enough to deal with countless failures, and responsive enough to capitalize on what they learned in order to secure early customers. What’s Next.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Use a development methodology.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. Oh, this is just a Photoshop file?

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

But many more are true American success stories, out of the limelight, quietly creating jobs and securing our future. The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an Internet connection. Take the example of Indianas Passageways.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. Although this was annoying for sysadmins, security consultants, and language purists (and for those who had proprietary modules that couldnt be bundled), it was a huge boon for developers. Nice article. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management.