Acquisition Agile Demand Lean 
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. Over its lifetime a Lean Startup may spend less money than a traditional startup. Who influences a sale?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Guest post by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. At a party in NYC recently, I was challenged by a VC to name the biggest company currently using Lean Startup practices. I think he expected me to describe a medium-sized startup or maybe some small, old-school media organization.
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Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
I am always surprised when critics complain that the Lean Startup’s Build, Measure, Learn approach is nothing more than “throwing incomplete products out of the building to see if they work.”. It’s time to update Build, Measure, Learn to what we now know is the best way to build Lean startups. Here’s how. Build-Measure-Learn.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 21, 2020
That demands the right combination of tactical urgency and strategic patience, but there’s no question we have to move with alacrity on this right now. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. What’s wrong with it?
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 11, 2012
Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Building It Is Not Enough: 5 Practical Tips On User Acquisition – [link]. Are You Willing To Pay For The Change You’re Demanding? Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].
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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
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.) So what’s wrong the product development model? Where Are the Customers?
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