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AI Houses & Reverse Mentors

Start Up Blog

A tiny cohort of startup founders who shared ideas on tech before it was trendy. The Stranger from Romania – Raul Oaida – was my co-conspirator in creating the world’s first ever drivable lego car. We have now co-founded Macro3D – our 3D printing and robotic construction company.

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How to get creative with your domain name registration

The Next Web

Amanda Foley is a writer and marketing associate at audience.io , a New York and London based audience development company. TLD has serious “nerd allure” amongst developers, techies and hackers. Stef Lewandowski , co-founder of Makeshift.io, which has launched apps attending.io , hiremyfriend.io Cofounder of Greenhouse.io

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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

Board Effect

They are also three times less likely to leave their organization and more than twice as likely to be willing to work extra hard.” — Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Supplier diversity also matters. “DEI It’s about harnessing different perspectives to develop effective solutions and deliver meaningful impact.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Cheap Ways Validate Your App Idea And Get Early Users

YoungUpstarts

by Mark McDonald, co-founder and co-CEO of Appster. Once you’ve developed some relationships and established communication with some interested users, this test can be incredibly helpful in determining your minimum feature set. If the problem you’re going to solve matters, they’ll respond.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.