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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

customers aren’t buying it, the cost of distribution is too high, etc.) The Focus on a Finished Product Rather than a Minimum Feature Set The passion of an entrepreneur coupled with the product development diagram drives you to believe that all you need to do is build the product (in all its full-featured glory) and customers will come.

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Mentoring the mentors: Advice and inspiration for startup mentors

siliconflorist.com

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor for startups—either in a formal accelerator program or independently—here are some tips for thinking about how to work with entrepreneurs. Silicon Florist. Search for: July 3rd, 2012. by Rick Turoczy. 3 Comments. Think of the obvious.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

Therefore when money is hard to come by, entrepreneurs (and their investors) look for ways to reduce cash burn rate and increase the chance of finding product/market fit before waste you bunch of money. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that. How do we raise the big bucks?”

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Product design debt versus Technical debt

andrewchenblog.com

If all of those buildings were to power down, it may be that the relative distribution of business would remain the same, but we’ll never know since that will never happen Important navigational areas like homepages, inboxes, notifications, etc are all the same way. Ideas for when and how to pay down product design debt?

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. What we do on a daily basis is a thousand times more secret than your "stealth" startup and we can still talk about it in more general terms than most "stealth" entrepreneurs talk about their project. This is utter bullshit.

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How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? We launched version 2.5

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microisvs, Software Products and Startups: My Most Popular Posts.

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Most successful Micro-ISV products (and a lot of not-so-Micro-ISV products) could have been built by a few solid mid-level developers.&# Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?