2002 Customer Development Engineer Founder 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
It’s rarely true that your first customer will be big. But this was 2002 when AdWords was affordable and I had no competitors, so you can’t repeat that — it doesn’t matter how I did it. Maybe you worked there or a co-founder or investor has some juice). It wasn’t true for me either. I didn’t.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 30, 2009
During the same period (1987 – 1990) and I did some work at MIT under Eric von Hippel on “user driven innovation with regard to software development&# which today would probably fall under the heading of “open source software development approaches.&# No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. For now, Id like to ask a favor. It was a disaster.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.
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