Community Guinea Technology 
Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. What if I was wrong? Would anyone even show up?
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 17, 2010
We’d see them all the time and get to be feature testers and product guinea pigs. At least open source it and let the community run it! Once I did start using it, I got hooked. USV funded the company and for nine months, Josh and his team worked just three floors down from us. It was great to watch it grow and develop.
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ReadWriteStart
APRIL 25, 2013
Beta testing can be a b h – especially when you’re working with complex business technology that doesn’t make sense for consumers. Pertino CEO Craig Elliott turned to the Spiceworks.com community of more than 2.4 If you can’t make it in the Spiceworks community, how can you succeed in the broader market?
The Startup Toolkit
OCTOBER 28, 2011
Selling UGC technology (or platforms) is a sticky wicket. The technology side is trivial. There are lots of tactical examples (Reddit faked the community until strangers began to care about karma) but very few good repeatable strategy. The hard part of UGC is getting the users to generate content. Open problems in UGC.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
We also support TNC’s work with indigenous women environmental community leaders in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. She described the conversation around technology and innovation she’d had with Brian, and suggested that I should talk to him about Techstars.
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 20, 2019
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Hunter Walker
MARCH 19, 2016
We were guinea pigs then as the second class! And you can move incredibly fast in a unified way with that sort of communication. The reason it works with all of our differences is because of a common foundation of love for quality food, values around community and sustainability.
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