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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

And when he’d get a positive response he’d show them his first minimal viable product – the mockup he had created of the User Interface in PowerPoint. But I’m having a hard time getting to my next minimal viable product. While I have all this great feedback on my visual mockups I can’t iterate my product. Lessons Learned.

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

——— If you’re an experienced coder and user interface designer you think nothing is easier than diving into Ruby on Rails , Nodes.js List key features/ Minimal Viable product plan. to host your company name, email, calendar, etc. For coders: set up a web host. Size the market opportunity.

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The Code is your Enemy

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this also produces a natural weakness , and when I look at what made me a successful entrepreneur — not just a great coder — it’s that I acknowledged and overcame that weakness. We can all write code — at least well enough to get a product launched and through a few iterations.

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Hail The March Of The Citizen Coder

YoungUpstarts

Can we afford to wait for the rise of these coders to attend the workforce? Therein lies the need for the citizen coder. Self-taught and digitally native, the citizen coder is a symbol of 21st century success and a ready-made solution to a yawning skills gap. There are plenty of precedents for this kind of platform approach.

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A Technical Cofounder Tells You How To Find Your Technical Cofounder, Where The Stuff We Return to Amazon Goes, a Benchmark VC on Rethinking Your AI Startup, and More….

Hunter Walker

The show included a surreptitiously recorded conversation with an employee of a “product-destruction” facility, who described receiving truckload after truckload of Amazon returns and shredding everything—ostensibly for recycling, although the recoverable content of a chewed-up random selection of consumer goods is not high.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. Tell me a bit about your background.

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We’re all coders

Start Up Blog

As a startup entrepreneur I often get asked if I’m coder. My answer used to be something like: our job as an entrepreneurs is to organise the factors of production, not be them. Yes, we’re all coders. I used to say no. But I’ve recently changed my answer to yes regarding the coding question.

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