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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Expo (and a call for he.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? They want to do activities.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

This is lean development without any customer development. Creating quick buzz and social proof is not the same a developing long-term customer development, but it pays off. Being the most-downloaded app in a small country, generating the most traffic or the most downloadable content sells.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VIII: The Rise of.

Steve Blank

The links will download PowerPoint presentations.) While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S. This technique of covering a broad range of frequencies was known as barrage jamming.) (A