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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

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In both cases, the answer was that the founder would go to find other ideas, turn those into paper descriptions and validate it with customers. Customer Validation 101. The Fallacy of Customer Development Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference Less is More, More or Less Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing?

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

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Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. free weekly Infochachkie articles! free weekly Infochachkie articles! The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. Preaching What You Live.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

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This article originally appeared on Inc.com. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.”

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

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The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. 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. How about them apples? One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

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These magazines are full of wonderful photos and articles depicting the “good life”. Features that were very difficult and expensive to program yet he found later that his customers could care less about his cool features. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. If you’re interested in that topic I cover it in the article linked previously. If you’re interested in that topic I cover it in the article linked previously.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast.

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