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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, they will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Companies struggle to compete while reconfiguring legacy distribution channels, pricing models and supply chains.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. Marketing: Which channels are they active on? They’re active on multiple channels, with followers on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and several podcasts covering different themes. YETI tells a consistent story across all channels.

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Teaching Customer Development and the Lean Startup – Topological Homeomorphism

Steve Blank

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. Customer Development was a process to quickly search for a profitable business model when customer needs (features, pricing, channel, etc.)

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Great product and good momentum are keys to unlocking investment

The Equity Kicker

In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea. In fact, it’s been famously written by Chris Dixon, now a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, that 10 million users is the new 1 million users. You had to do crazy stuff like put machines into a datacenter, at this point. Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

Michael Mondavi , founder and coach of Folio Fine Wine Partners. In Silicon Valley for three decades, spent eight years as a partner at US Venture Partners. In 2004, he launched Folio Fine Wine Partners with his wife Isabel and their children, Rob, Jr. Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

Podcasting as a marketing channel. The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. I’m a strong believer in not jumping into a technology, channel, or media format just because everyone else is doing it. Partner with others. Image source ).