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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.

Develop 354
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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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

socalTECH

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college. What do your apps do?

Mobile 162
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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

It should talk about how many customers you think you will acquire and how much you’ll charge for your product. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? I care about the thought that you’ve given to the customer problem.

Web 2.0 334
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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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Top 5 Apps For those Facing disabilities

Tech Zulu Event

The price range of the application varies based on the amount of words you want access to. $5 5 is the maximum price for the ultimate edition. It has access to a lot of customization features, allowing you to build the interface with custom pictures and categories in order to facilitate sentence building as much as possible.

Mobile 40
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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud. The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.