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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. Size the market opportunity.

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Introduction to Growth Hacking for Startups

VC Cafe

The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding: Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?”

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

Well, a few months ago, I migrated the hosting for my Selective Tweets app to Amazon’s AWS cloud hosting platform. in hosting costs for an app with nearly a million registered users that serves several million requests a month. What does this mean in practice? Since then, I’ve had to pay a grand total of $4.88

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This has been the most appropriate thing I could have ever read right now. March 2, 2009 1:58 PM programiTV said.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. Conducted Customer Development. Established a strong value proposition based on Customer Development.