Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development. Business Model versus Business Plan Customer Development' Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry. If your country doesn’t have that you need to be born global.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. Even PhD analytics eggheads. No one can truly understand your customers or genuinely share their interests unless she is a customer herself. . Intel realized this when its initial forays into web-based and social media marketing were going nowhere. Highly trained salespeople.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry. Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Dakin Sloss , co-founder of Tachyus , which offers predictive analytics and quantitative optimization for the petroleum industry. Ajeet Singh , co-founder of ThoughtSpot , provider of search-driven analytics. Companies like MySpace and LinkedIn became some of our biggest customers. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Their objective is to get users, orders, customers, etc. and if a web-based product, a minimum feature set,) all delivered in 10 weeks. Class 1 Jan 4 th Intro/Business Model/Customer Development.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

It worked like a charm since we could create a more interactive experience on the Web. What started out as a generic web-based chat solution morphed into a full-fledged product for a distance education that we called iClass. (We We were a tiny web-conferencing startup in Pittsburgh called iMeet. This time we’d gotten it right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

So without further delay: Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Entrepreneurial Development Firms.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics as a Cloud/SaaS (Software As a Service) application. Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2018

Parse.ly – Parse.ly aims to provide clear audience insights to the web’s best publishers through an intuitive analytics platform. Javelin – All-in-one lean startup and customer development software. These are my weekend favs, I would love to hear about some of yours – Tweet me @ducttape.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) All the Data and Not a Drop to Think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Of course, I can still get access to the data about who’s signing up and when – and a lot more analytics, to boot – but I have to ask. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want.

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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. SlideShare asked customers what they had expected in the product; the responses were often literal descriptions.

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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. As you and I have chatted about, a Zynga developed game versus an EA developed game is quite different. Though technology tools and Web 2.0 ideas (e.g.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners. Coming up next on the blog: Emily Kennedy , founder and CEO of Marinus Analytics ; and Chris Cabrera , founder of Xactly. Tune in Thursday, Oct. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It seems like it’s somewhat of a surprise to nontechnical people that development skills are VERY high in demand. An analytical mindset that might be somewhat jaded from past ventures is going to take a hard look at your idea, and their reaction is likely to be sobering. Examples in books for any language have always been easy.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2014

Sean Murphy has some great tips for conducting customer interviews, you can check them out here. 3) Web & Exit Surveys. By diving into your website’s Google Analytics you can round out your personas with quantitative findings. New versus repeat customers. Frequent customers. Look At Segmentation.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

. — Seeking help to cope with the anxiety he developed as Freshsessions was falling apart, Dan tried some web-based mental health practitioners. Coming up next on the blog: Emily Kennedy , founder and CEO of Marinus Analytics ; and Chris Cabrera , founder of Xactly. Tune in Thursday, Oct. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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conversionxl.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

What follows is a list of resources that can be applied specifically to landing page optimization, found here on ConversionXL & from other great websites around the web. note: If you’re a startup, you’ll want to use customer development questions for your page to resonate with future traffic). Take the time.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). MixPanel is about tracking events and cohorts in your web application (in real time). which sources send better traffic?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). MixPanel is about tracking events and cohorts in your web application (in real time). which sources send better traffic?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. As I present in my blog, defining the MVP requires answering the following question: "Will our customers be willing to buy the product with these features - available at this date - at this price?" Expo SF (May.

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The Startup Toolkit

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Ben Horowitz wrote a terrific post on the product side of this: Our web server is five times slower. Instead of talking to customers, I watched analytics or sent out a survey. Customer-facing stuff is hard! I began my time in sales & customer development roles as a pathologically shy techie.

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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. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. It’s 2010 and that idea has not graduated to mainstream yet. Where is it?

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Become a Web Developer from Scratch!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money. In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Much of the content is shared with the Web 2.0 How does this map to the web? Trial and Error + Analytics? Related articles by Zemanta Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps (4cloudcomputing.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup workshop coming soon (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) The Lean Startup Talk From Web 2.0

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

It’s the kind of thing you can repeat in an elevator, simple to understand , universally applicable , and, most importantly, doesn’t burden your tech team with a lot of custom development. Often times, that comes in the form of analytics, which is what a biz dev partner would want in order to check on the success of the deal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I don't see how aplying Continuous Deployment (CD) to data marts (and the analytic products that depend on them) would be any different to any other online application. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

If you already know the topics that interest you, you can browse all the talks and events on that theme—whether it’s MVPs, Analytics, or Education—on our “ sessions by theme ” page. Our sponsors include companies like Intuit, O’Reilly Media and Amazon Web Services.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

One of the quickest ways to identify great candidates for immediate content upgrade opportunities is to look through your analytics and find your most popular content today and consider ways to personalize a content upgrade for these posts. Let’s say you sell a pretty standard $4,000 web design package.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. Do it yourself. Start as soon as possible.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2013

It’s only a matter of time when tablets will become the main device for surfing the web. Granted I have not done any customer development interviews here, and I’ll just go with what I think. 19 You don’t do proper customer research. Any proper web job starts with conversion research. Sign me up!

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