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LeanLA Presents: Beware of False Prophets

Tech Zulu Event

The venue was lined with vibrant and inviting decor, a spacious loft style presentation room, and plenty of mini-workstations for the motivated and social entrepreneur; a great setting for the presentation at hand. He went on to explain a bit about the customer development model from Blanks: State business model assumptions.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development. Developers don't need everything to be fully documented.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

Both Sides of the Table

And if you want my presentation on the things I Effed Up at my first startup you can view or download the short PPT by clicking that link on Docstoc. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator?

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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

Tech Zulu Event

Customer Development. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process. Single founder teams are welcome but may have to work twice as hard. StartupWeekend Next will focus on 5 core parts : The Entrepreneur’s Journey. The Flipped Classroom Approach.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Just like Startup Weekend most had never meet their team mates until the day of, and came together to develop a possible prize winning product in eight hours. At the end of the development time allotted for each team, They get up to present their days work. Teams: CoderTie. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

This is exactly the reason I like people who present to me to start with their personal bios. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.