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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

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He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Finally, came the headliners, the three false prophets, defined as: activities that provide positive feedback, but don’t necessarily contribute to the search for a sustainable business model.

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

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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 ? Venture Bonsai enters the increasingly active market of enabling new methods to fund startups. What went wrong?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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So when it came time to start their next company the starting questions was, “OK, what big problem could we solve for local TV broadcasters?&# They’re taking on the declining revenue streams of local TV and creating new, measurable ad activities. So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5 The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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