Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. With a bit of research it turned out that a professor at Brown University had invented something close to what we had in mind. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds
venturehacks.com
DECEMBER 9, 2012
Some entrepreneurs set up quarterly advisory board meetings and that probably works well for them. But we find savvy entrepreneurs tend to be transactional—they ping their advisors as needed and skip the advisory board meetings. 6 responses so far · Comments RSS. Sign up via email or RSS. Learn more.
Steve Blank
JUNE 22, 2009
Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Instead of bemoaning the demise of an old company we should be celebrating new companies that develop new helpful technologies. DO NOT develop a computer!&# No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2010
Advisory Board. Sean Murphy on the first dozen enterprise customers - Gabriel Weinberg , September 8, 2010 I recently did a Traction Book interview with Sean Murphy who runs a boutique cutomer development firm in Silicon Valley. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. Carpe Diem.
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