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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. That's fairly uncommon.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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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.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 Quirky - Platform facilitating collaborative design of consumer products through an online community. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g.

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Top 5 Apps For those Facing disabilities

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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. Commandr / Teclas Access.

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

SoCal CTO

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. We're looking to choose a design put together by one of our readers as the official t-shirt for OnStartups. What went wrong?

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

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He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). Developer. How it happens.

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