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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. This was exactly what I was searching for. They pivoted the product by implementing Google like wide-open search windows requested time and again in customer interviews. The first meeting with Steve.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. The JEI program was created in 2004 and is managed by the Ministry of Research. They themselves receive both public and private funding, which they use in turn to provide financial support to startups through incubators and other established channels. We have those too.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development.

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The Lean LaunchPad Educators Class

Steve Blank

It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. So what would a search process for a business model look like? I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

Meanwhile, Micro VC has focused on sweeping changes in technology and consumer internet adoption that have enabled dramatically reduced capital requirements for building new software companies, as well as accelerated access to customers via search, social, and mobile platforms.

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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. Every vendor ranked benefits from the traffic, audience, and leads produced through top search engine rankings at zero additional cost.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. That is, build a massive database of travel information that provided a white label search engine for travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.