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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. In this post I’m going to describe the flaws of the product development model. It’s a big idea.)

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Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail

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Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. Last night, I went to a local “find a co-founder” meetup for RE. What It Takes To Recruit A Technical Co-Founder. Particularly if she is at what is essentially a co-founder speed dating event.

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Beware The Consultant

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If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed , follow me on Twitter , connect with me on Quora. Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Thanks for visiting!

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Sloan realized that the traditional centralized management structures (like General Motors had in 1920) were poor fits for the management of GM’s already diverse product lines.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

And I can even imagine cases where it might burn more cash than a traditional startup. In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

The first step in Customer Development was Customer Discovery ; extracting hypotheses from the business plan and getting the founders out of the building to test the hypotheses in front of customers. Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy!