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Excellent article and blog from a programmer entrepreneur whose been there. Some other points he makes include - - Startups should be optimized to learn [prod
by gord 18y ago
Excellent article and blog from a programmer entrepreneur whose been there.
Some other points he makes include -
- Startups should be optimized to learn [product and customer are being discovered]
- Sales metrics are a good thing [start small with $5/day search engine marketing, iterate until this yields results ]
- Bite off small chunks of development [and release them, as they often are a distinct usable feature]
- lrajlich 18y agoAgreed, Eric writes an excellent blog and is based on real world experience. Coordinated marketing and product launches make sense in the context of a Product Development model but cut into your ability to learn in the context of a Customer Development model. Instead of allowing your initial customers to teach you about your product, you are skipping that step and going straight to teaching the market about your product.