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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

But instead of spending the time and money to develop products on spec, TPGTEX creates mocked-up webpages that list the features of a potential new product -- such as a system for making radio-frequency identification, or RFID, labels -- along with its price. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis.

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Startup Tools

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Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages.

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Startup Resources

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From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Codeacademy. Steve Blank.