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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

Beware of Mentors. I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers. I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." Customer Validation 101.

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

socalTECH

What is Startup Boost , and how is it looking to help early stage startups in Los Angeles? It's a term to help people understand that we're here to help companies get ready to scale. We do that by galvanizing the community to help out. They're willing to give their time, a few hours a week, to help out startups.

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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

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“The program is very interesting, basically taking Steve Blank’s view on entrepreneurship and startup development and formalizes it into a program for entrepreneurs who are trying to get started,” said Risenhoover. This action-based program was created to help ensure success for a few types of teams. Customer Development.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Has convertible debt won? Lessons at the end.).

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved.

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