Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

I’ve been teaching Customer Development at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Berkeley was brave enough to let me write and teach a class on a subject that no one had ever heard of – Customer Development. Four Steps. are unknown.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply What did I learn today? Reply Create.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman. I’ll stop channeling James Burke now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

You can find the 2005 version here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. A healthy disrespect for the status quo coupled with passion, persistence and agility trumps everything else. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

“ Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005. A healthy disrespect for the status quo coupled with passion, persistence and agility trumps everything else. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching. Customer Development Teaching' Everything else is secondary.

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