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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. If I get sales I will expand on the site. This is a common mistake.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part Two)

OnlyOnce

In this article, I’ll talk about the process we’re using in our product management-and-development teams to stay innovative. We stole a lot of our process from some of the leading thinkers in the “Lean Startup” space – particularly Gary Blanks’ Four Steps to the Epiphany and Randy Komisar’s Getting to Plan B. The Process.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Its a key lean startup concept. The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

How about reviewing some of the incredible work being done by the likes of Mark Rendle, Ben Vanderveen, Alex Robson, Jon Skeet, Chris Patterson, Glen Block, Rob Eisenberg or Steve Sanderson? I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. March 26, 2011 at 1:15 am.

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