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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. Seeing the evolution of thinking is not a bad thing.

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Why Your Startup Needs a Sales Methodology

Both Sides of the Table

It’s OK because in an era where you can much more rapidly prototype and build products it is far more beneficial to launch your first version, get initial customer traction and then talk to your customer base to understand how well it meets their needs. A champion is somebody with both “influence” and “authority.”

Sales 393
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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

You can use your phone to really guide yourself through game day or through a live event. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. How did you get into this?

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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

Metrics-Guided. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions. Lean Approach. Model-Focused. Vision-Driven (You’re definitely going to need a strong vision when those sleepless nights, crying kids, and angry spouse enter the picture).

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Legendary customer support. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. The Holy Grail of. The leading provider of. Innovative. Disruptive. We get it! I Be specific.

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

Both Sides of the Table

So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. He thought, “This way any product you launch you can talk instantly with and get feedback from customers.&# He had the idea that people would want city guides to tell them where to eat and what to do.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

" Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company - Steve Blank , August 23, 2010 One of the ways I learn is to teach. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Lessons at the end.). An inauspicious birth. It sounds like shareware."

Startup 191