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Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. Adding features without making the product too complex creates real value for your customers and produces revenue for your company.
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femgineer.com
JULY 18, 2010
If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. There are a lot of engineers out there who have been burned by founders who pull and push them in a variety of directions. Sweat equity or salary?
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
The Customer Development process says preserve your cash by not hiring anyone in sales and marketing until the founders turn hypotheses into facts and you have found product/market fit. Which seems to offer an understanding of “customer development&# that’s quite different the Four Steps to the Epiphany approach.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 5, 2010
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. The problem is that the premise of all of them – whether true or false – is irrelevant to you as a startup founder.
Software By Rob
MAY 21, 2010
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’ve communicated with hundreds of startup founders over the past three years, and I’ve begun to notice a pattern. There are three points during the creating of a startup where the founders are most likely to close up shop. For everything.
Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. That’s when you find one or more (future) customers that help fund your product development in exchange for input into the process and free or highly discounted use of the software. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?
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