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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. See also: 12 Tips for Early Customer Development Interviews , 12 tips for customer development , tips for customer development.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. Indeed, more than 60% of U.S.

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

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Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). I absolutely love their product, team and vision.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. My Dad uses email – he still doesn’t understand the ‘forward’ button.&#.

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

SoCal CTO

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. " Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company - Steve Blank , August 23, 2010 One of the ways I learn is to teach. Lessons at the end.).

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