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. I think he totally nails it.

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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? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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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. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. After I retired, Jerry Engel , director of the Lester Center on Entrepreneurship , at U.C.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Filed under: Customer Development , ESL , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , ESL « Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores A Wilderness of Mirrors » 17 Responses Michael F.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The year was 2005, and the real estate was booming. It was then when I launched (along with my girlfriend) my first web project, called it Dreaminder. I had a degree in Information Technology, had worked as a web developer, tech support guy, account manager, sales person and a marketer. It all started in Dubai.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’m just really sick of how Techcrunch propagates this fairy tale scenario of web startups but spinning this best-case scenario success story as being the guide for others’ success when they really comes down to a number of jackpot background factors. It really needs some rounded corners for that web 2.0

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