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Next LeanLA Meetup & Henry Ford

I really should update my blog more often — but, until I do…. 1) If you’re in the Los Angeles area, come by the next LeanLA meetup and see Jason Calacanis interview Eric Ries.  All attendees also get a copy of the The Lean Startup.  You should RSVP ASAP. 2)  I wrote an article that [...]

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#CustDev Office Hours on Namesake.com

Come join me, right about now, for a chat about Customer Development on Namesake at noon on July 6th 2011.

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The #CustDev T-shirts are here.

FYI your life is now complete: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development t-shirts have arrived. Steven of CargoHawk has put together a suite of startup-themed t-shirts that I suggest you check out. For example: One of my favorite analytics tools, Crazy Egg, has it’s own shirt. Notable investor and great blogger, Bred Feld, has Feld [...]

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10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup

Top 10 Reasons to Not be a Lean Startup for Momentum Michigan

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I see dead startups

My buddy, Dave Binetti of Votizen came down this last Monday to present on False Prophets at LeanLA.com’s last meetup (a meetup I co-organize).  In his talk, about the subject of False  Negatives and False Positives came up. In the context of startups, a False Negative means that while your startup is not getting any [...]

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The #SXSW Lean Challenge

So, I am heading off to SXSW today – I will be speaking in a Core Conversation titled “Conference Startups: Grassroots Innovation Rocking the Event World“.  I will be staying with my friend Noah — you might know Noah as Chief Sumo of App Sumo. Noah looks just like this.  (I swear to you, he [...]

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Slides from my talk at Lean Startup NYC

Hacking Customer Development View more presentations from Patrick Vlaskovits.

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The “Shu, Ha, Ri” of Lean Startups

I wanted to clarify Slide 18 “There are no rules” from Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup – which apparently has caused some confusion. I also referenced “there are no rules” in an earlier post, which Andrew Skotzko picked up and riffed upon. What I am attempting to get across to people [...]

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Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup

Top 10 Reasons to NOT be a Lean Startup View more presentations from Patrick Vlaskovits

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Evidence Snobbery and Data

After reading the The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, David Beyer of Y-Combinator backed Chart.io has done a quick interview with me wherein we get a bit into the epistemology of startups.  I think the interview raises a few interesting points that I will explore further in a forthcoming blog post. David:  So, just to [...]

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