Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I see many CEO’s, product managers and marketing types out in the field talking with customers and users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Mechanical mistakes are the result of human mistakes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

So developers stuck in this world tend to think the other developers on their team are either, deep in their souls, plodding pedants or sloppy coders. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see. In traditional batch-and-queue development, these two concepts are linked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. As a fellow coder, I empathizes with you about having to throw away work that wasnt broken in anything but a business sense. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. Labels: iPhone , search engine marketing 3comments: Th.Khangs said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If necessary, consider doing this under a different brand name than the one you are wedded to using.

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