Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Customer Development is about Testing the Founder’s Hypothesis Any idiot can get outside the building and ask customers what they want, compile a feature list and hand it to engineering.

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OCTOBER 12, 2009

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/12/ardent-3-supercomputer-porn – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank (tags: customer-development product-management startup) [.]

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MAY 10, 2012

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Entrepreneurs « Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) Unintended Lessons » 6 Responses Twitter Trackbacks for Let’s Fire Our Customers « Steve Blank [steveblank.com] on Topsy.com , on September 24, 2009 at 7:19 am Said: [.]

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MARCH 20, 2007

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MARCH 13, 2007

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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MAY 10, 2012

BGT creates interactive marketing and technology solutions for global corporations that strengthen brands, develop more engaging relationships and transform businesses. One of the biggest disadvantages of the waterfall is that little thought is given to design and development for environments beyond the standard desktop browser.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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MARCH 1, 2007

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JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. gCons: Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers (100 icons + PSD) – [link]. When Designers And Developers Work Together – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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JULY 14, 2010

Three Kinds of People (from blog archives) – [link]. Googley Principles – Not For Design Only (from the archives) – [link]. gCons: Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers (100 icons + PSD) – [link]. When Designers And Developers Work Together – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

A couple of things I should add - Greg didnt mention the technical challenges they had (scalable complex matching algorithm) and the issues they had with an initial developer. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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MARCH 12, 2007

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

The assets were a series of products already developed and on the market or in the development pipeline. After talking to its resellers and customers I realized that SuperMac was the only company that could be described as “fifth in a group of three.” In essence it was a restart with a mixed bag of assets and liabilities.

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AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. It’s what my textbook on Customer Development describes. I was an idiot. Berkeley and at Stanford.

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MARCH 5, 2007

There are quite a few other Software Development Companies in Southern California working on open source and/or freemium business models. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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MARCH 20, 2007

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

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MARCH 22, 2007

Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. See Five Things Meme as an example. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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APRIL 20, 2009

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] After I retired, Jerry Engel , director of the Lester Center on Entrepreneurship , at U.C. to do that.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

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JUNE 11, 2009

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. tags: entrepreneurship startup business) [.] You’re not joining a big company. But make sure it fits who you are.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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APRIL 10, 2009

Customer Development ) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. Customer Development) to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions.&# My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left his office or before a meeting ended. That’s why startups are agile.

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JULY 7, 2009

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Reply Dan Hodgins , on November 13, 2009 at 1:12 am Said: Hi Steve, Just listened to your “Retooling Early Stage Development&# for about the 10th time tonight as I was cleaning my room. Your results may vary.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. Photo by FOTOCROMO See Also Tweet « Prior Post Posted in How-To and tagged with interviewing , real life Comment Subscribe E-mail This Print This Digg Share I totally agree, digging… I totally agree, digging into specific details does reveal a tremendous amount.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Its worth mentioning that software development firms or other startups with very detailed project milestones and dependencies may find BaseCamp insufficient for some situations. Some developers will complain that its not as extensible as other frameworks, and they might be right, but thats irrelevant. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteWeb.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2009

Our VP of Business Development had no problems getting meetings and fund raising was easy. Out of the Ashes A few of the key tenets of Customer Development , came from the ashes. Which at this stage of the company was marketing and financing. So while the words may have passed through my ears I couldn’t “hear&# it.

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MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention. In these markets it’s all about invention risk.

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