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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You can imagine how well that worked. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

They assume that each person on the team is genuinely interested in testing their work and ideas against the reality of what customers want. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Is that a lot?

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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This is why they gladly pay top dollar for a QA group that is supposed to be that "1%" that finds the bugs first (now how good a job they actually do is a whole different subject!)

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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Search for: Videos. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Co-founders are the highest form of dilution to a business. Maple Butter. Can’t pick just one.