Balance Sheet Customer Development Demand Sales 
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
One of the ways our VC’s kept track of our progress was by taking a monthly look at three financial documents: Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. To be clear – Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements are really important at two points in your startup. Who are our partners?
Steve Blank
MAY 14, 2012
The excerpts, which appeared first at Inc.com , highlight the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in our book. Yet without direct and continuous customer contact, it’s unknown whether the features will hold any appeal to customers. Executing on a sales and marketing plan.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
In my last post I described what happened when a company prematurely scales sales and marketing before adequately testing its hypotheses in Customer Discovery. Spread out in front of everyone around the conference table were the latest Income Statement, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements. They don’t. They don’t.
Steve Blank
MARCH 4, 2014
These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. What Does this Mean?
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2019
The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). This type of teaching firepower and headcount was necessary as the teaching team expanded the class size to meet student demand. Class Size. Class Velocity/Depth.
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