Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. We all owe you.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

customer development. agile engineering. Some general customer development slides click here. Called “ How to Build a Startup: The Lean LaunchPad ,” it walks you through the Business Model Canvas and an overview of the customer development process. Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. At a time of significant global uncertainty, diplomats are grappling with a set of transnational and cross-cutting challenges that defy easy solution. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans. Support U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. The next step was getting out of the building and testing the business model in a formal process – and that process is Customer Development. But you can’t fake a business model/customer development presentation. I love walking around the BYU campus.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., Staff functions in finance, human resources, legal departments and business units developed Key Performance Indicators, processes, procedures and goals to measure, control and execute. The question is – why?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. People, not as much. People, not as much.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Just as a business incurs some debt to take advantage of a market opportunity developers may incur technical debt to hit an important deadline.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Advance democracy, human rights, and other global interests. At a time of significant global uncertainty, diplomats are grappling with a set of transnational and cross-cutting challenges that defy easy solution. The State Department has four main foreign policy goals: Protect the United States and Americans. Support U.S.

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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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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

If you are a practitioner of Customer Development, ESL was doing it before most us were born. In 1962 Wheelon left for a new job as the first director of the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology where he was responsible for development of OXCART , the A-12 Spyplane, and three major satellite reconnaissance systems.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

As the world’s first global generation, life is first and foremost about choice. According to the Connected Life report by global research consultancy TNS Singapore, Singapore’s millennials spend an average of one day a week, or 3.4 They are highly educated and mobile centric. hours per day, on their mobile phones.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

— I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from “distractions.” So, in response the company had hired a global consulting firm to help solve the problem. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the HBR blog. There’s a much better way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I spent last week at a global Fortune 50 company offsite watching them grapple with disruption. Currently a market leader, they’re watching a new and relentless competitor with more money, more people and more advanced technology appear seemingly out of nowhere, attempting to grab customers and gain market share.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. But it worked. We made it. So can you. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Combining agile development with customer developm. Help you raise money. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. But dont be too sure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Id like to see if we can come up with policy suggestions, concerns, or questions that might promote entrepreneurship generally - and globally. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Iridescent LA & Global Do Gooders cordially invite you to a STEM in LA Mixer. Global Womens Journey. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global. Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least ten fold since the turn of this century. Instead of adopting the management techniques of large companies, which too often stifle innovation in a young start up, entrepreneurs began to develop their own management tools.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

And the globalization of entrepreneurship means the worldwide pool of potential startups has increased at least 100-fold since the turn of this century. Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.);

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Agile eLearning. SW Courses.

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