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The Big Bang. The Lean LaunchPad explodes at University of Maryland

Steve Blank

It was Steve who first brought Will Harvey to visit Immersion, which led to a strategic investment in There.com, Will’s stealth-mode but sure-fire, can’t-miss startup. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Along the way, the company faced many of the same challenges that Lean Startup practitioners experience: balancing new customers and product lines with existing ones. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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