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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. 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. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. Don't stress over format.

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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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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 call to arms.

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

Both Sides of the Table

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. It was a pleasure to write them myself. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. We had to write a CRM to keep track of them all. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

. - 500 Hats , July 30, 2010 Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 - Ash Maurya , February 16, 2010 How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups (..)

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). 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? Customer Care Today.

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