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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Products like these basically help you crowd-source your customer service input and product development pipeline.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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

SoCal CTO

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Give yourself a month.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

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. - First Principles.

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