2009 Acquisition Customer Development Engineer 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) release of the product.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Todd Branchflower took my Lean LaunchPad class having been entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering degree. True to his word, fast-forward three years and Todd is now Captain Todd Branchflower , teaching computer engineering at the Air Force Academy.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.
Steve Blank
MAY 28, 2009
Customer/Market Risk Versus Invention Risk One day I was having lunch with a VC sharing what I learned from my students. is whether there is a customer and market for the product as spec’d. In these markets it’s all about customer/market risk. The real risk in markets like Web 2.0
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)
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JULY 8, 2011
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 30, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 30, 2009 Achieving a failure We spend a lot of time planning. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. Great post!
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