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@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ Mail-in-a-Box is an open source project. Your contributions and pull requests ar
 
 ## Development
 
-To start developing Mail-in-a-Box, [clone the repository](https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox) and familiarize yourself with the code.
+To start developing Mail-in-a-Box, [clone the repository](https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox) and familiarize yourself with the code. Then move to the cloned mailinabox directory.
 
     $ git clone https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox
+    $ cd mailinabox
 
 ### Vagrant and VirtualBox