YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2020

by Andrea Fryrear, author of “ Mastering Marketing Agility “ The profound transformations in the world over the past 3 months have led to a radical and rapid fire transformation of consumers’ preferences and needs. Consider the example above, which is primarily for a B2B audience. An Exercise to Generate Your MVP.

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SCRUM Agile Customer Framework 162

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. It was a disaster.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. I found these to be particularly interesting and worthwhile.

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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Or variations thereof. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Metrics 122

OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

The Customer Experience (CX) movement is gaining more and more steam these days, especially in B2B companies like Return Path. Books Business Management Customer Development Customer Experience Lean Startup' The recurring thought I had reading this book, especially for companies like ours, was “Is CX the new UX?”

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Lean Agile B2B Metrics 94

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 264

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Customer Marketing Lean Vertical 421