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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” We can put both little- and big-endian in the chip, and it won’t cost us more than 1,000 gates.” The reaction from our software guys was a little less kind. “Are

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. Discuss costs upfront and be sure the talent fits within your budget while still providing you excellent quality. Cost-savings with the more affordable developer and IT project manager salary.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. Adobe renamed ReelTime to Adobe Premiere.

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Lessons Learned: Continuous integration step-by-step

Startup Lessons Learned

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. Theoretically, i can visualize the Continuous Integration as RAD ( Rapid action development) along with iterative method, which we used to study in Software Engineering's Process model.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" startupcto