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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. In a nutshell, Product Development is about building something.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

HIRE A PROGRAMMER - About 3 months after I left my job we finally decided we needed to do something until we could find a co-founder so we hired a programmer to do some HTML mockups. They were there for the job, not the startup. I still believe the guy writes great code but we just weren't getting anything useable out of him.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Codecademy.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Nowadays I’m not a great coder, but in 12 months I learned how to rock in HTML/CSS, JS & Python. Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. They told me it was impossible to pick up coding.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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

www.quora.com

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Building a scalable, profitable, customer acquisition engine. did the question!

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. And implementing it is easy, too.