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Forget what you know: There’s no right way to start up

The Next Web

They didn’t create a landing page to see if people would enter their email. For the past year, they invested in the team and technology to prioritize speed of iteration with disregard to traditional methods of customer development and company building. They didn’t do market research. They just built it.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. Meetings are definitely one of those places, but email is another primary way that that comes in. So that’s a very simple way of saying it’s task management, but it’s getting rid of emails that of course no one wants emails.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Want to learn more about me?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. My question is simple: What feedback questions were most instructive for you guys in your early development?