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Document Your MVP for a Developer

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Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. It would be great to get notes and summaries from these. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development.

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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

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

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But as usual there is a short summary to know the key topics where you can just skip to the critical point in the video you want to watch. 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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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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You can watch this week’s TWiVC episode by clicking on the link and my summary notes are below. {if My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customer development but for physical products.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Summary notes, as always, provide below. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.