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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed.

Lean 335
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A Simple Map for Innovation at Scale

Steve Blank

How do they become present on new social media and communications channels? How do they connect with a new generation of customers who had no brand loyalty? Understand whether the problem is immediately solvable, requires multiple minimum viable products to test several solutions, or needs more R&D.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

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. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong. think his slides are great (and by far much easier on the eye then mine.). What went wrong?

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Expo SF (May.

Lean 60
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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. Mass blasts of information are ineffective, because the broadcast channels are suffering from information overload (even in social media). There are too many products clamoring for attention. Is that a lot? Is that good? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Do some Customer Development instead. A soft launch is a very good test to your business model, and allow you to fix bugs and optimize your products. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?