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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Without the revenue to match its expenses, the company is in now danger of running out of money. innovation.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Nothing seems to matter. In an eyeballs business, you just cant seem to acquire or activate that next step-up of customers.

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

He focuses on having a clear idea of the problem you are trying to solve, running experiments, and then: "Did the results of your test match what you expected? The first is his version of the Code/Data/Learn feedback loop. If not, kill the feature and start over." My experience is this kind of thinking can run into trouble. Expo SF (May.