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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

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As you might imagine, when you go to the page on Customer Development , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti. The site aggregates content but doesn't own it or try to copy it.

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

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The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0 Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it?

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly Store.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Just shows to the growth in the Santa Monica area with people like the CoLoft helping to fuel the ecosystem.&#.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do - Steve Blank , May 13, 2010 Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. The topic was VC signaling in seed rounds — and how these signals help or hurt your ability to raise money in the next round. Here’s why.

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