Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. The amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to do is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. One day, we became convinced that a killer app for IMVU would be to sell a presidential debate bundle, where our customers could put on a Bush or Kerry avatar, and then engage in mock debates with each other. Setup a simple website. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. I just came across this post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. As a language, its inelegant. Every other system Ive seen has some drawback like this.

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