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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?”

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. One of the problems they run into is building a web site. List key features/ Minimal Viable product plan. JustinMind , Balsamiq ).

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Understanding How to Implement Content Marketing Effectively

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Many feel like it is just a buzzword made up by salespeople trying to pitch another consulting gimmick for website development. The product of deliberation comes easily to you. Doing so you will put more of your energy on content strategy and less on the production of it. Online Content Basics. Bringing Things Together.

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Critical Marketing For Startups

YoungUpstarts

Building a professional website, user-friendly site is a somewhat more complicated undertaking, but is absolutely crucial for any business wishing to operate in the digital world. If you choose not to hire a professional web developer for your site design, consider some of the business websites that you have visited as a customer.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Could $100,000 and the right developer skills make you an overnight billionaire? How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? But a good developer could make it quicker.”. Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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3 Things to Consider When Staffing a Software Development Project

mashable.com

You can deal directly with full-time or freelance/contracted employees, or you can outsource using local or offshore development firms. Convenience First and foremost, you must decided whether to work with individuals or development companies. Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP).