SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

There's a lot out there around Customer Development - read Steve Blank : Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack - Steve Blank , October 25, 2010 Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success - Steve Blank , October 28, 2010 and reading about Lean, MVPs, etc. is a requirement.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. By doing the job. Where is it?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 33:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for supporting the show. 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. How did you get into this? I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

So can somebody with better branding skills than I have please come up with the new term that we can all use for what we all know we want to see – customer development, MVP, rapid iteration, pivot and learn. OK, now you can attack me … Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice VC Industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Before they’re presenting I want to know “what unique experiences you bring to the table that are going to give your business a faster time to market, a better designed product, more knowledge of your customers problems – a higher likelihood of success.&# It’s what many VC’s call, “An unfair advantage.&#.

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