2010 Agile B2B Customer Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 5, 2010
I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. For now, Id like to ask a favor. It was a disaster. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 28, 2009
Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Continuous deployment offers three significant advantages over large batch development systems. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 23, 2009
But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. which defeats the whole purpose of getting face time for Customer Development!
market-by-numbers.com
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Reply O modelo Freemium para Startups – parte II » Manual da Startup says: April 14, 2010 at 12:09 pm [.] Please Share! Feel free to Contact me.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 20, 2009
In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice. It would be nice if you could deconstruct why the customer development model is challenging to pull off in practice? Expo SF (May.
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