Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. The Wrong Metrics. Jonathan Swift.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Slides are below: The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Edit: I finally got YouTube upload working, which has better embedding options than MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. It lets the customer and development team spot problems with calculations almost immediately. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. Because the art team was considered an internal customer (and “friendly&# to boot), we didn’t waste a lot of time making the tools easy to use. This led to some pretty bizarre situations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Use some customer development to find out. Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. Without further ado. Now for the feedback. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

We owe a lot to this seminal document. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process. Customer Development is itself an example of SBCE. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. I documented the lesson plans etc on [link] March 4, 2009 5:25 AM Eric said. I offered a programming class at the local school and. only two kids took it up!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. The process, which Blank detailed in his book, "The Four Steps to the Epiphany," uses customer feedback to refine and improve a product before scaling a business. Here's how.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels. That is customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. We don''t follow a set agile methodology, but rather follow a more home-grown, minimal version of various approaches. The result was a new process of four-week iterative cycles all about throttling new code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

You also need to know what each one cares about, which metrics they look at (or studiously ignore). Education Guideline Book (1st Edition) Sep 2006 View SlideShare document or Upload your own. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If not, you might want to take a look.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. In this section, you really just want to document how your business will make money. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Use a development methodology. Schedule.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. Instead of detailed documents, we focused on tracking our performance to our plan and managing to regularly updated schedules and milestones. At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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MARCH 27, 2009

In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. Customer Development : a disciplined approach to finding out if there is a market for your product before its too late. The hardest costs to cut are those that are embodied in sacred cows.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Each five whys email is a teaching document. Because five whys kept turning up a few key metrics that were hard to set static thresholds for, we even had a dynamic prediction algorithm that would make forecasts based on past data, and fire alerts if the metric ever went out of its normal bounds. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. Instead, we try to accelerate with respect to validated learning about customers. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design? Let me illustrate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

And I think a bad choice, a bad library, a horrible API, lack of documentation etc. You forgot to mention how awesome the documentation on php.net is. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? will make the foundation weak. It is one reason why I like ruby. Expo SF (May.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

For modifications, please edit the original document here. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Scanning / Document Management. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said. September 13, 2009 11:57 AM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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