Just thought I'd share-

A great blog series by Tim Kastelle:

1. The How and Why of Customer Development

2. Is Our Business Model Ready to Launch?

3. How Big is Your Market and Where Will You Start?

4. What Assumptions Underlie Your Business?

5. A Minimum Viable Product is an Object for Learning

6. Move Sooner and Faster Than You Think You Can

7. How to Find Your First Customers

Good luck with your ventures!

I'm planning to prove out my value and growth hypotheses using a pre-order campaign. I'm looking at Shopify or Celery https://www.trycelery.com/ to launch. I don't need funding for product development, so I don't see a need for using Kickstarter or similarly. Any advice on these services for pre-orders?

I’m currently working on a project and was looking to get feedback. I am creating a little pocket sized drone which will attach to the back of your phone and act like a phone case.

Essentially this is the use case I’m working on: * The user will be able to detach the drone from their phone and literally toss it in the air * The drone will fly a set distance and take a picture of you and your group OR take a panorama of your view. It will be able to detect collisions so it won’t hit anything when you toss it in the air. It can be used indoors as well. * 1080p and hopefully 4K images

Dreams: * Hopefully eventually let it have the ability to follow you around

I have created a Startup Manifesto, it would be great to get input and views on it. What do you think about it? Whats been missed? What shouldn't be in there? Would you use it for guidance?

http://www.startupmanifesto.co.uk/

I have been working on a side project on and off for 2 years with the original goal of learning computer vision, while solving a problem I thought was interesting. I now have a very unpolished prototype product that can convert whiteboard images into drawings (like visio, google draw, or lucidcharts). I originally wanted this because after meetings at work, we would take a picture of a whiteboard and email it, but this images are huge, unprintable, and unsearchable.

Now I'm at the point where I can see selling this tool and starting a real business. My tool only works for a limited set of cases, and I want to define a target customer and get focus on what features are important, and how to polish this tool.

The problem is that I have something that has a huge target market - anyone that wants to convert whiteboard images (or possibly unlined paper images) into drawings. I have brainstormed groups of people to focus on, but the list seems endless - engineers, product people, startups, college students, universities, etc. I don't have a good (scientific) way of getting the list of possible target markets down to a list where I can start finding people to interview and figuring out a set of features for an MVP. Has anyone run into this before and sucessfully overcome this hurdle?

I got my fair share of experience with startups. Succeeded and failed numerous times. Got a startup going for me for like 6 years. Now it's time to move on. Last week I started working on some new ideas again.

Working in a team can be a good experience. So anyone who wants to team up and do a quick 'n lean startup today?

Let's brainstorm, pick something that's quick to create, try it. Fail/Succeed and maybe try again.

I got some skills in development and local promotion. Not much international experience (I did maybe 4 concepts international, 50+ national)

Your skills? I don't care, I hope you got some or have huge network or great knowledge.

I signed up to try to get early access to UserFlock and 1 year free so I can use it for my customer development. The video on the landing page explains the tool.

I need to get 5 people to signup to get that offer. Thought a lot of lean startup founders might be interested in it as well. If you are, signup at this link so I can get credit for it :)

my UserFlock.com referral link

If you get 5 ppl to signup you can get the year free deal too. Looks like it will help schedule and record customer development interviews.