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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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

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Hacking 4 Recovery

Steve Blank

Next, you’ll use customer development to virtually get out of the classroom and talk to 10-15 customers/ partners each day to validate whether your assumptions are correct, and to see whether anyone other than you would want/use your product or service. June 25 4:00 PM PDT Team formation mixer and Q&A.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth. In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup comes to Stanford

Startup Lessons Learned

hitchens - theyre not open to the public as far as I know, but if you have an affiliation with Stanford engineering, undergrad, or GSB, its possible you could come audit. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Labels: events , lean startup 5comments: Hitchens said.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Develop a landing page, do some lightweight advertising, and generally reach out to as many potential customers as you can.”. Use a development methodology. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs. Thus, these pages.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. affiliate and referral marketing on the web. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. Agile eLearning.