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Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Steve Blank says "get outside the building," Eric Ries says "seek validated learning," Sean Ellis says "seek product/market fit," Drew Houston says "the only way to learn on a $0 budget is to talk to people.". You repeat these mantras at Lean Startup Meetings but you're not doing it.? "Our I say "find ten people who say they'll buy."

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Beyond the garage

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

Early adopters, especially those who are willing to pay for novel services, are the lifeblood of lean startups. More broadly, Austin-based companies can theoretically serve an area of more than 5 million people if you throw Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio into the mix. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. Peter: I’d be interested…this is something I’d love to hear from our audience. We’ve got another Texas city, Houston, number seven. Jonathan: Kanban.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

Ezra Klein : Let me ask you something about the broader thinking around both of these, which we were talking about a little bit earlier around the Houston primary care example, too, which is I don’t understand really why any of these were not viable businesses in a non-high deductible care model.