2010 Customer Development Employee 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
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted.
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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. You can imagine how well that worked. You can imagine how well that worked. I think theyve succeeded.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 10, 2011
I was invited to Finland as part of Stanford’s Engineering Technology Venture Program partnership with Aalto University. In 2010 it got worse with an Act in parliament about the Monitoring of Foreigners’ Corporate Acquisitions. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 8, 2009
We were sitting in our conference room in our first “system-planning meeting” trying to define the specifications of our new supercomputer and make the trade-offs between what was possible to build, and what customers in this new market would actually want and need. The conversation that day would become one of my professional watermarks.
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