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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

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.

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

Both Sides of the Table

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. 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.&#

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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). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

You can find some of the monthly ones in the following: Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010 Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010 Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 (..)

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

Both Sides of the Table

I’m trying to enter the debate with what I found to be a very destruction guiding principle that young people have started to believe. Either this thing has legs and will grow fast and we’ll raise at a very large price or we’re going to ‘fail fast’ &# Me, “What? What about the money you raised?

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