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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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You likely are writing your first one of these. This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. For example, if you are trying to determine viral coefficient (see Startup Metrics ), then the focus should be around those aspects of the MVP. Don't stress over format.

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

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I didn't really set out to write a book. The reason why, is my experience is in early stage sales and more specifically, in early stage customer development. Before you have data to figure that out, you're in customer development mode, and you shouldn't have a sales person. Amos Schwartzfarb: Very often.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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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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