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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, I’ve talked often about our belief that an instant messaging add-on product would allow IMVU to take advantage of a network effects strategy. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. Unfortunately, when we realized the product design was not what customers wanted, we had to pivot to a new product.

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This I Believe

SVPG

Honesty also means that I never take money for recommending a tool, or introducing people in my network, or helping a company to fill a position. I work hard to make sure people know that my criticisms are coming from a place of genuine concern and interest in them personally and their career. I believe in people. Or Six Sigma. Or Six Sigma.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. Our model at Casual Corp. I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. share Powerpoints and docs with customers. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.