Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2014

Just back from vacation and also some work travel and want to get back to blogging so expect a few posts over the next couple weeks. I’ll try to do a future blog post on some of my insights in watching Nanea enter the role and how the founders enabled her success. Have a listen and see for yourself.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Generally, simple fonts are better, because you want to make sure customers can read them when they’re smaller or overlaid with complex video backgrounds. Next, you can set up business profiles with your website link, brand logo, and tagline, then you’re ready to start sharing videos and other content. Design Your Brand Logo.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Rather than sending text-based releases to media sites in the hopes of being published, brands are more likely to bring press releases in-house and generate video announcements of important company advancements. When press releases are required, interactive or video-based versions will be most effective. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. I was glad to find your blog and look forward to reading it. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2019

Product Hunt is a community-based website that allows makers and marketers to launch their products or services and get in touch with their first real users. The community can jump start products through votes and (honest) reviews, which are essential in the early stages of campaigns. We’ve already covered this step.)

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.)

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. via Influencer Matchmaker ].

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I know just enough HTML and CSS to really play around on my blog and really mess it up now and then when I do something wrong. For me to sit down and try to change my template, resize a graphic, upload a really cool blog post with some neat links, and all that kind of stuff, I can do it all. Case in point. I know how.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The video above is from Megan MacKay.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. What solution are we productizing ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

Or you could work with the writer to create a blog, see if it can attract a readership, and then test whether those readers will pre-order a book—which you can do before you’ve put ten seconds of effort into creating a print volume. You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video. A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me. They recorded many of their sessions on video.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Generally, simple fonts are better, because you want to make sure customers can read them when they’re smaller or overlaid with complex video backgrounds. Next, you can set up business profiles with your website link, brand logo, and tagline, then you’re ready to start sharing videos and other content. Design Your Brand Logo.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. When 3M brought “lead users” into its innovation process, they improved revenues by a factor of eight times over innovations from internal product developers. Short, well-told customer story videos proved most powerful, exponentially increasing engagement and lead generation for Intel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Online it may be time to take a formal position via blogs and interviews. You need to be visible in marketing efforts, viral videos, and interactions with key customer segments. Allocate time for active participation in relevant outside industry conferences, and public panels or TED talks that look ahead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Below youll find the video of my remarks as well as the full slides embedded below. First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. Thanks Eric, great blog!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. With the Internet and modern video communication tools, including Skype and Google Hangout, you can find the people you need, from anywhere in the world, and sign them up quickly.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy follows this with a brief animated video that uses storytelling ( scientifically linked to emotional responses ) to describe common pain points and answer the critical question, “Why do I need it?”. Here’s a video on Twitter featuring their products being packed away onto airplanes and put through trials: Image source.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We had that luxury—we had three other profitable companies (focused on web design and development) when we decided to launch Chanty. We wanted to spend money on product development, not market research. Instead, we saved most of that money for product development. Chanty was, at its outset, a fun side project.

Differentiation 48

Differentiation Non-Compete Audio Algorithm 48

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Politics World Business Tech Health Science Entertainment Style Sports Opinion Photos Magazine Video LIFE.com Lists TIME Home. Video Games. Also this week, TIME editor-at-large Harry McCracken presents our always engaging annual list of the best blogs. More videos Videos. Add to website or blog. Search TIME.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. There are a couple of videos that are relevant to this discussion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Expo SF (May.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Over the last year I’ve started paying more indie creators directly for their work — heavily biased towards podcasts and newsletters/blogs. For example, Lenny Rachitsky writes a newsletter devoted to technology and product development. My Climate Journey (climate and sustainability) has a blog, a podcast and a Slack group.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, May 3, 2009 Videos galore Two new videos are online from recent speeches. The first is my talk on engagement loops and the levers of engagement from the Kontagent/Facebook Developer Garage. Ive embedded the slides below the video feed. Slides from this talk are available here.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. This post contains video, click to play]. There are certainly companies doing them well, but not a lot of detail goes into instruction, and the blog posts out there on how to build personas are generally pretty bad.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

It’s been a year since I’ve been blogging. One of the downsides to a large number of blog posts is that older stories tend to get buried and hidden. These blogs began as an attempt to explain why a “book” I wrote wasn’t a book. Customer Development Manifesto. The Video Spigot……… 200.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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