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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money.

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Crisis Management by Firing Executives – There’s A Better Way

Steve Blank

Now the company is in crisis mode because the rest of the organization (product development, marketing, etc.) Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. Why it’s not a crisis is that the Customer Development process says, “do not staff and hire like you are executing.

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Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots

Steve Blank

Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. that couldn’t change before he declares “we’re building the wrong product.” he’d declare. “We

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