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> By brantcooper, January 13, 2010 2:32 pm > > Based on input from Steve Blank and others, I updated the Customer Development image I created a few weeks ago. Steve suggested I attempt to structure th...
> In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank covers (pp. 59-60) strategies for making first customer contacts, the process for engaging early potential customers about your idea. I have been sending a...
via steveblank.com This post from Steve Blank is a good summary about the growth of a startup to a more established company and how it doesn’t just happen over night. It looks like this will be a seri...
> April 15, 2004 > > > > December 9, 2004 > > > > February 27, 2009 > > via blog.adsdevshop.com This post has a full range of the iterations of the pricing layout chart and also the pricing that Basec...
via go-test.it This looks like a cool service for those that are into continuous integration testing. Instead of having to setup the test servers to run your front end tests, they have it all ready to...
> Startup Equity For Employees > > The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and I’m getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding sta...
> [](http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/istock000006711564xsmall.jpg)Enroll in an academic program, make friends with some of the other really smart students, drop out of school with them to cr...
> > > Every so often, venture capitalist Larry Cheng puts out a list of the top VC blogs. Previously, he ranked the blogs by how many subscribers they have on Google Reader. But now he’s changed his m...
via competitious.com This looks like an excellent tool for knowing your enemy or at least the guys that are playing in a similar space to your endeavor. I’ll be trying it out and post up feedback late...
> During this economic downturn, many of us have faced similar circumstances. In trudging through a gloom-and-doom atmosphere, there have been things we wanted to get done, businesses we wanted to exp...
> By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. > > By 2012, India-centric IT services companies will represent 20 percent of the leading cloud aggregators in the market (through cloud serv...
> 1. UserVoice > > 2. Silverback > > 3. Feedback Army > > 4. UserTesting > > 5 & 6. IdeaScale and Crowdsound > > 7.GetSatisfaction > > 8. UTest via readwriteweb.com This is an excellent list of the va...
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> By brantcooper, January 9, 2010 1:59 pm > > One of the more intriguing dynamics in startups and business in general, is customer communication. Customer Development is, of course, all about talking ...
> Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics – Guest Post by Eric Ries > > Written by Tim Ferriss > Topics: Marketing > > > Vanity metrics: good for feeling awesome, bad for action. (photo source: UK Guard...
> I’ve heard the Lean Startup methodology likened to a framework. Its central precept is that a startup should develop its customers as it develops its product – that is, both concurrently and in a st...
> What’s the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it’s apparently $0. And it’s also $1 million. What? > > Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these two prices to ...
> As a blogger, I spend most of my time writing. But it’s time spent reading that’s most satisfying. Here’s a short (and by no means a complete) list of 10 articles that encapsulate the art of the sta...
> Shutting down > > I’ve seen a number of situations recently where entrepreneurs decided to shut their startups down while they still had cash in the bank. (Contrary to popular mythology, I’ve never ...
> How much to charge for your Web App? > > > > The great thing about working in an Internet start-up is the learning we get to do every single day of our lives. We don’t always know the right answers ...
