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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Certainly, both inside the programs I have run at Techstars, as well as outside, I've always been that person where if someone has a question about sales or early customer development, they would direct them to me.

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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

Instead of making a few dollars per sale and hoping for thousands of sales, you sell to only a few customers, and charge much higher rates. My Obsession With The Product - Feld Thoughts , May 3, 2010 For some reason I’ve been doing a lot of interviews lately. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Here’s why.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Metrics availability. 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? Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. Not so bad. Performance.

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