Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. If youre worried about disappointing some potential customers - dont be. I recommend using a hosted service like SnapPages. Measure conversion rates.

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Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

bigs : @ericries says Stealth dev is a (undesirable, failure-presaging) customer-free zone. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode. Another recent meme that I hope more and more startups will take to heart: "stealth is a customer-free zone." What if its both of you?

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Cofounder 60

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This contrasts sharply with the peak bookings end of the market where AirBnB, HouseTrip, HomeAway and a host of smaller players are competing fiercely. (It’s Turning to the business and how we’ve worked together, the first thing to say is that Matt’s customer development work was encouraging.

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Stealth Cofounder Aggregator Europe 141