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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

So, I promised this founder to do a post talking about how you go about create specifications of your MVP. 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. Go find a new technical resource.

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

InfoChachkie

No matter how much you think you know about Steve’s lean startup philosophy, Eric Ries’ contributions to the movement, or the methodologies by which companies have put lean startup tenets into practice, I am confident you will be enlightened and entertained by Steve’s frank and insightful remarks. . Preaching What You Live.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

It has also brought about my favorite new term – Ramen Profitable. So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development. I’m talking about your financial spreadsheet.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I know this stuff cold now.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

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. So I started thinking about the “Inside Out&# organization. Back then it seemed foreign.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. Here are some pre-conceived notions about what non-standard titles in a startup, like the following, might mean: Chief Inspiration Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Diversity Officer.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In reality, startup titles should be more about the division of labor than an executive position. Here are some pre-conceived notions about what non-standard titles in a startup, like the following, might mean: Chief Inspiration Officer. More executives, or other more creative titles are seen as a big red flag. Chief Diversity Officer.

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