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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Thought I might as well include a link so that people don't think I'm crazy: [link] / Jordan Ste. Fees for these devs and shops run from under $5,000 to more than $20,000. PM OK, agree.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

The dysfunctional family theory may explain why founders who excel in the chaotic early phases of a company throw organizational hand grenades into their own companies after they find a repeatable and scaleable business model and need to switch gears into execution. I like my odds.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

For four years we have offered the synchronization service for no charge, predicated on the hypothesis that a business model would emerge to support the free service. We had the wrong business model. Author : Jordan Cooper. Dave Jones made a virtue of having no business model for APB. Author : Todd.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.