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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

You likely are writing your first one of these. This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. Don't stress over format. Don't stress if you are doing it right.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team. What's the new book about? Amos Schwartzfarb: The book is called Sell More Faster, the Ultimate Sales Playbook For Startups. That was four years ago.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. This post is an accusation.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. Alarming IT data points - deal architect , August 25, 2010 I am grateful for plenty of positive coverage my book has received. The coverage, though, has focused mostly on all the innovators I profile in the book. What’s going to happen in the future?' Lessons at the end.).

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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And how do you think the next person who’s thinking about writing you a check going to feel about that sort of cavalier attitude with their money? Don’t get me wrong – failure is OK in my book. Tell that to the person who wrote you the $50,000 of their hard earned money and entrusted you to try your best. This is wrong.

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