Analytics Customer Development Product Development Silicon Valley 
Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
Starting in the 1950’s, Stanford’s engineering department became “outward facing” and developed a culture of spinouts and active faculty support and participation in the first wave of Silicon Valley startups. At the same time Berkeley was also developing Cold War weapons systems. See the presentation here.).
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talented product developers. Even PhD analytics eggheads. Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x. Highly trained salespeople.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
If youre feeling charitable, you can add a third page that lets people know that the product isnt available right now, and that youll get back to them when it is. Enable Google Analytics tracking. You just have to sign up for Google Analytics, get your account number, and plug it into your site. What is customer development?
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Scaling up successful tests is easy for the same reason.
Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2009
At a university business plan competition, for the first time they can swim in the sea of expertise that we/I take for granted in the middle of Silicon Valley. I love business plan competitions (and with my valley-centric bias, I think Berkeley and Stanford have two of the best.)
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2010
So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. 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.
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