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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

The venue was lined with vibrant and inviting decor, a spacious loft style presentation room, and plenty of mini-workstations for the motivated and social entrepreneur; a great setting for the presentation at hand. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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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. Developers don't need everything to be fully documented.

Develop 354
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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

Tech Zulu Event

Customer Development. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process. StartupWeekend Next will focus on 5 core parts : The Entrepreneur’s Journey.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some experience developers, project managers, and even some designers. Just like Startup Weekend most had never meet their team mates until the day of, and came together to develop a possible prize winning product in eight hours. At the end of the development time allotted for each team, They get up to present their days work.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

This is exactly the reason I like people who present to me to start with their personal bios. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). I’ll be they’ll build a successful business.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. Funny story, after Bill presented at TED (back when Amazon was still a small company) Jeff Bezos was in the audience. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room. Tyler has helped coach dozens of companies through pitching and presenting at Launch Conf and formerly TechCrunch 50. Pitches kicked off with 13 teams in total presenting. What a SWLA.

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