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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

Or were they a set of spreadsheets put together over late night beers to convince an investor that this is going to be a great deal? —– Part 2 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. While customer input may be a checkpoint or “gate” in the process, it doesn’t drive it.

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What is A/B Testing? The Complete Guide: From Beginner to Pro

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How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

However, you will be dealing with almost daily change, (new customer feedback/insights from a Customer Development process and technical roadblocks ,) as the company searches for a repeatable and scalable business model. And you will be dealing with change, but it won’t be the constant daily change the early employees dealt with.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning.

Steve Blank

Reply Raj , on August 14, 2009 at 2:45 am Said: Steve, This post has probably triggered a paradigm shift in the way that I’ve been approaching my startup. Touching the Hot Stove – Experiential versus Theoretical Learning « Steve Blank (tags: startups) [.] It’s not a substitute for customer input and understanding.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

Of course no VC firm will come right out and say, “If you’re an EIR for us you can’t do your next deal with any other firm.&# Hmm… You’ve taken their money, eaten their food, sat in their meetings and you are going to take money from someone else? It sounded like a great deal. They have your soul. I love all these war stories.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

I’m wondering about this because it’s easy to make the conceptual distinction between deal-breaker feature gaps and nice-to-have feature lists, but especially for a hardware product with a high fixed development cost, it seems very difficult to iterate on an initial attempt at a minimum viable product. I’m a designer.