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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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Affordable and Efficient App Development

The Startup Magazine

With a large talent pool and the availability of a variety of different options to choose your development team, many businesses wonder what is the best approach to choosing a solution. Some businesses utilize in-house development teams or local professionals. Services are also much more affordable.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. In the past foreign funds who wanted to invest in China had to set up funds using dollars with complicated offshore structures with exits through offshore listings.

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Born Global or Die Local – Building a Regional Startup Playbook

Steve Blank

But other critical hypotheses such as activities, resources, partners, channels needed testing offshore. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development' They intended to get scale for their business by growing in the U.S.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. In the past foreign funds who wanted to invest in China had to set up funds using dollars with complicated offshore structures with exits through offshore listings.

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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. In exchange for equity, we discount the project cost, which is already low because we offshore most of our development, by 10-15%. Our model at Casual Corp.

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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. Will be looking forward to seeing the next piece that you do. Andrew Holt I love these kinds of articles.