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Advisors aren’t pokemon (but they are magical)

The Startup Toolkit

If you have an ongoing quagmire of an industry ahead of you, you should be able to get the knowledge from customer conversations. In general, if you just need to get over a one-time hump, you can lean on friendly folks, do a little book learning, and move on. You probably don’t need to get the cap table involved in that.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. Our model at Casual Corp.