Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

This doesn’t mean just more technology stuff, though we’ll get that. Over the last half a century, Silicon Valley has grown into the leading technology and innovation cluster for the United States and the world. What’s happening is something more profound than a change in technology. Compressing the Product Development Cycle.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Their focus on technology is also a key role in their innovation. Tesla’s technology is not only used by Tesla, it is also used by other car manufacturers like Toyota, Daimler, and Mercedes-Benz. Tesla has always put a huge emphasis on product development and technological advancement. Photo Credit: Sally Stevens.

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MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Customer Development (and Lean) is about continuous customer contact/iteration to find the right time for execution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. There are too many products clamoring for attention. Scaling up successful tests is easy for the same reason.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting. Expo SF (May.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If While its vital to have goals and a clear vision, to survive and thrive youll have to keep an open mind and stay agile enough to follow the path where it leads." — Jeff Jackel , CEO, BuzzMob.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

So instead of “renting” social interaction, these companies are owning more of their social experiences – by creating their own customized channels. By creating your own social channel, your company has greater say and control over its brand image. Use social media technology to your brand’s advantage. Who’s Doing It Right.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

What are the industry and technology trends that are fueling the need for these skills? With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. With the overlapping areas of marketing or product with optimization, it helps to be skillful at one of the former areas.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. Use a development methodology. or even be a U.S.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. It All Came Crashing Down. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. And that’s just to get started.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Great for visualizing work of product development. Agile project management. agile product management. Agile eLearning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

There are other models, in other distribution channels. As the AppStore becomes increasingly saturated one of the goals of the socialDeck platform is to create an alternative distribution channel -- a way to drive installs of casual games outside of the AppStore oligopoly. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Which marketing channels drive the most traffic?

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter? End result?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Execution by Vertical Market As the class progressed, students asked how the activities/functions of a startup; (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Product Development, etc.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. Technology? New/Disruptive?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. Sounds a little abstract, though, doesnt it? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

At some point in my career as I began to formulate thoughts about mission and intent , I started to think about the broader role of marketing in a growing technology company. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

whorunsgov : Eric Ries: Startups fail not because the technology works, but because no one wants the tech. g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Its natural at a gathering like this to focus on new technology and applications. once it launches. Startup=Experiment. link] Amen!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

Maybe location-specific "channels"? I'm a technology hacker in exactly the searching situation you mention; having just come to the end of the setup of my current venture and looking for the next challenge. I'm really just trying to figure out how to explain what this thing does. July 31, 2009 11:16 AM BillSeitz said.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Then they noticed that they’d been cannibalizing other channels—people converting as referrals were leads already acquired from other channels. Incentives work, but they might work too well and convert people who are not really into the service/product or cannibalize other channels. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami.

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