Agile Customer Development Developer Portfolio 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. And to be honest, VC’s in this bubble really didn’t care. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.
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Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2019
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.
Steve Blank
JULY 25, 2023
Now at Imperial College Business School and Co-Founder of the Wicked Acceleration Labs , Cristobal and I wondered if we could combine the tenets of Lean (get out of the building, build MVPs, run experiments, move with speed and urgency) with the expanded toolset developed by researchers who work on Wicked problems and Systems’ Thinking.
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2015
Gore , I’ve found two corporate strategy tools developed by other smart people helpful in bridging Lean Startups with Corporate Innovation. To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Talking to potential customers and competitors customers. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development?
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