Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We Read the rest. For that, release early, release often will suffice.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The larger-account division wanted to move the pricing in just the other direction – making the low-end products more expensive, so their large customers would have an increased incentive to upgrade. Many custom reports had been created for this meeting, and the data warehouse team was in the meeting, too.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

Is this feature usable, and is the UX reasonably consistent with the rest of my product? I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. The ROI isn’t good enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Three reasons: change the world, make customers’ lives better and create an organization of lasting value. Read the rest of Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Also take a look at the great Hacker News discussion of this essay. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Steve said that if this was my goal, then indeed, the Customer Discovery approach is best.

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