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Hacking for Defense @ StanfordĀ 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. He runs H4X Labs.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

Boyd emphasized the importance of agility in combat: "the key to victory is to be able to create situations wherein one can make appropriate decisions more quickly than ones opponent." Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong? Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ā€™s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. SEM is a simple idea. I just came across this post.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.