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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small? Let’s start with how much value you think you’ll create for your customer if they use your product in terms of hours saved, costs avoided, extra sales, better conversion rates or whatever.

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

Both Sides of the Table

He said it was better than the Yellow Pages because he would provide pricing transparency. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud. The exact same team had worked on 2 previous customer service startups (and 1 non-CS product). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined.

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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

socalTECH

The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a custom development price. To build their own solution, it would take hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions to do correctly.

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