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Seattle Startup Week is an annual event to help entrepreneurs navigate the Seattle Startup Ecosystem in five days. Finding resources, meeting people, visiting coworking space and meeting investors. Techstars purchased UP Global in 2015 and these programs that I helped launch globally became part of their community programs. These slides are from a Pitch Clinic

After fiddling with wireframes, you’ve done your customer development. using the PowerPoint demo. People like your idea – CHECK!  You can go past GO! But you don’t get to collect $200, yet. You have more work to do. You’ve drafted the specification. Pages, bullets, and versions are numbered. You’ve ruthlessly moved future features into that section

Getting your startup off the ground is going to require you to nail down a ton of tasks – on a short deadline. As the Founder (new CEO?) some of the tasks are in your sweet spot, and some will require you to learn new skills. You will need to launch the right MVP product,

I no longer fall in love with my own ideas. I treat them like an unloyal friend that will just as easily tease me into a long road of misery as they might be a partner in a great adventure! The reason is that your ideas will lie to you – well, technically they allow you

This is the presenation used for the Techstars Seattle Jan 2017 cohort. Shoutout for SEO Research using The Topic Explorer from SEO Monitor. @SEOMonitor Customer Discovery Techstars Seattle 2017.01.25 from Dave Parker