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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

It felt like I was watching a new startup hub in the process of being created. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. That community is, by all accounts, relatively new - less than five years old according to several folks I asked.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. What is customer development?

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? They just dont need another authority figure in their life.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process. We still struggle to create Firm software that is defect-free, and it still requires customer insight (and maybe some customer development) to discover what will Delight.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.