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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. I realized the Customer Development model needs to be clearer in what exactly a startup is supposed to do, regardless of the business model. But it also requires you to ask a few questions about your startup before you use it.

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10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version)

crowdSPRING Blog

So I considered resources that I use on a regular basis, that provide real value to me in my own life as a startup co-Founder and that I think others will benefit from. A really nice travel rewards program is vital for startups on limited budgets. Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010! Photo: Armando Maynez.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users."

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Growth strategies for marketplaces: key takeaways from a fireside chat on growth

Version One Ventures

As an investor and former founder, I know that scalable growth (and the pretty hockey stick graph) is the holy grail for every startup. Just a decade ago, most software/cloud startups used a traditional model where product and marketing were siloed: product teams created the product and marketing drove people to the website to buy it.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. 1) Twitter. 4) WhatsApp. 8) Angry Birds.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

As I look at more and more start-ups predicated on viral growth, and at the use of social marketing, its becoming simultaneously easier to understand some aspects of viral growth and still a gap in understanding whats going to be that "hook" that will grab people at the end of the day. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.