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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Who can I hire later? Just list the Activities needed to get a major early milestone – i.e. cash flow positive, or first million users, regulatory submission/approval, etc.). For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Not only is the Chinese ecosystem completely different but also the consumer demographics and user expectations are equally unique. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Not only is the Chinese ecosystem completely different but also the consumer demographics and user expectations are equally unique. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

It sounds like youre assuming that your execution will be flawless, even something to be copied by competitors, but how can you know without testing it on the customer? flavor of a question-and-answer, poll-your-friends site with a distant revenue model and no user acquisition strategy. From the link: Oh, and what was the company?

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