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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter?

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. They proposed feature sets that they would plan to build and stack ranked how important these customers thought they would be. It was Salesforce.com.

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Retirement and Redemption « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.