John Kamuchau | John Kamuchau http://blog.johnkk.com A Entrepreneur/Developer's Journal Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:33:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 How do you make your first call http://blog.johnkk.com/2013/04/10/how-do-you-make-your-first-call/ http://blog.johnkk.com/2013/04/10/how-do-you-make-your-first-call/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:42:51 +0000 John Kamuchau http://blog.johnkk.com/?p=131 The lean startup process of discovering and validating  customers encourages us to get out of the building and talk to customers. That’s all nice in theory but given not everyone has the courage to “get out there”, but how do you make that fast call? In our classes discussions we came up …

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]]> http://blog.johnkk.com/2012/09/05/a-developers-guide-to-joining-a-non-funded-startup/feed/ 2 Travelling to America for Australians http://blog.johnkk.com/2012/09/05/travelling-to-america-for-australians/ http://blog.johnkk.com/2012/09/05/travelling-to-america-for-australians/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 09:30:10 +0000 John Kamuchau http://blog.johnkk.com/?p=10 My wife and I recently did a trip through about 12 major cities in America . While it was a wildly enjoyable trip , there were a few things we wish we knew prior to our trip . There are a lot of things about America that are similar to …

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