Budget Assumptions

Posted in Uncategorized on November 30th, 2009 by Jack

Adis Abababa musing on startup budgets brings up a good point – understanding the underlying assumptions behind the budget.

As a CEO, another critical issue is to ask if there has been a major change – to either our underlying assumptions or to the external environment. Many of these changes go hidden but still impact what and how we do things.

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Customer Development Defined

Posted in Uncategorized on November 30th, 2009 by Jack

Steve Blank gives us a very succinct definition of Customer Development:

In a startup the role of Customer Development is to:

1. test the founders hypothesis about the customer problem
2. test if the product concept and minimum feature set solve that problem

Now I get it.

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Geeking out – Software Languages

Posted in Uncategorized on November 8th, 2009 by Jack

Going through some of my saved-for-later reading blog links, I came across a gem discussing software languages and where do we go from here… Take a moment to read this

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