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Getting Started

Getting Started

The old product roll-out process is totally wrong for startups. That process is appropriate when customers are known and the market is well-defined. This is often not the case for startups. Customer development, then, is very important for startups, and there are a number of phases in the framework:

  • Customer discovery: develop hypotheses and test them with customers.
  • Customer validation: test sales, see if people will buy, and see if you can scale up.
  • Customer creation: marketing.
  • Company building: transition to a sustainable enterprise.

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The organization can be confusing. While this manual takes the reader sequentially through the necessary tasks of starting up the startup.

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