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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit."

Customer Development

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Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x. If so, the business world is full of specialists who are all too eager to help.

Customer

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Customer development. Its not enough just to build a product with great features - you have to figure out if there is a market for it. For those interested in getting started with agile or customer development, I thought Id include a few links. What is customer development?

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. The net result: we sold exactly zero presidential debate avatars. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. What is customer development?

Demand

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Agile

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Today, Id like to spend some time on two techniques: the problem presentation and learning what channels of information reach customers. If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Advertising

Advertising San Francisco Media Continuous Deployment

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Agile Java

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. It does it all by asking your customers just one magic question.

.Net

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean

10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

And then, at my first Silicon Valley startup , I watched friends get laid off in successive waves as it started to fail. Of course, those were the days when 12 year old, 80% market share, $200mm, 30% net profit companies were the ones going public. No business model, either. It seemed like just a bunch of research-oriented PhDs.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: Five Whys Where did Silicon Valley come from? What is customer development? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Campaign

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Lessons Learned: ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

10 years of entrepreneurship

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

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