crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Growth rates for Apple’s four major hardware product lines – pic.twitter.com/apLp6PsiHX. A 3-Day Weekend…Every Weekend?

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Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 27, 2014

Seth often writes that advertising is the cost of having an unremarkable product. ” — Lauren Friese | Founder, TalentEgg DEVOTE RESOURCES TOWARD CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT “Bootstrapping is the act of scaling a product based on its merit. .” What’s the solution?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Sure, everyone knows that getting customer feedback is important. Congratulations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. The trade-off, though, is a more structured presentation format.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Like GroupOn, with a product that everyone agreed was brilliant, spawning 1,000 copy-cats. In other words, they’re back to seeking product/market fit, and only an immense market (and excellent fit) will counterbalance their crushing costs and pay back past investments.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

We didn’t talk about product; we didn’t talk about organization or raising money. Jim Semick , co-founder of ProductPlan , which sells web-based software for building visual product roadmaps. Before AppFolio, Jim created the product requirements for GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting which was acquired by Citrix. Peter Arvai.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

But I knew how to make meetings productive, I knew how to facilitate meetings, and I was smart enough to put our domain expert in the room with the domain expert from the customer. You can bootstrap it. You can build a Minimum Viable Product. You can build a Minimum Viable Product.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

But I knew how to make meetings productive, I knew how to facilitate meetings, and I was smart enough to put our domain expert in the room with the domain expert from the customer. You can bootstrap it. You can build a Minimum Viable Product. You can build a Minimum Viable Product.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. Long Live “Agile Conversations” appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager. The post RIP PRDs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life. You can register for both dates on the new official signup page.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. In the early days of building Qualtrics, Ryan tried giving the product away to entice customers to use it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Sometimes an early negative result from an experiment is a harbinger of doom for that product, and means it should be abandoned. Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We got to thousands of customers and millions in recurring revenue. We started seeing the writing on the wall, I’d say at least a year ago where, again, you’ve got to listen to your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean Startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. — Customer discovery paid off for Kerry. ” Steve : Did you know you were doing customer discovery? ” . …

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. Long Live “Agile Conversations” appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. So who is buying it today?

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here are your options: PayPal Offspring Go Work at a Start-Up The Hope: You can get some experience and you’ll find your future technical co-founder Why You Should: You don’t have any money saved up and you have no idea how to product manage, acquire users or fund-raise. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. A description of the problem you’re solving for your customers, and your solution to the problem, which is usually your product or service. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. I am now ready to move into the customer validation phase.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

The money’s a blessing that allows you to buckle down and focus on product. Learning in advance that you don’t need to build a feature is one of the highest-impact (and most common) results of good customer development. But really, moving slowly by being out of touch your customers is vastly more expensive.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 28, 2012

How many days have I squandered trying to optimize strategy and customer development when I could have cut the project in half with better tech choices!? Bootstrap (basic style). It didn’t have to be big. This was a one day project[1]. Now my head is spinning: what else have I been missing? Amazon S3 (hosting).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Same goes for television.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We have a portfolio of more than 500 brands and 4000 products and people invite us into their lives more 1.8 For most big, established companies like us, our business models were developed years—even decades ago. in developing these new models. Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan Customer Development'

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

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. How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users. You are coordinating customers by email. Jason: There you go.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The time to product and scale of investment is radically different than other startup markets.&# Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.” Bootstrap for years!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

You have to be 1000% dedicated to the mission and the problem you’re trying to solve and always be customer focused, because it is a long ride. Then she went to work on the technology: I hired some contract engineers who used to work on the Life Alert product to build us a really dinky prototype that you could plug into the wall.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2013

Anything that takes your focus off the customer puts your fledgling business in harm’s way. Whatever industry you’re in, success boils down to this: attracting enough customers, and keeping them coming back — with interest! Try to see your business as your clients and customers see you. But all of those answers are wrong.

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Hippoland

JUNE 29, 2018

3) People pay to be in your audience when they attend events The interesting thing about events is that they are a good way to jumpstart your audience for a new product. And in fact, people will pay you to be a part of your audience that you can later market other products / services to. And it’s hard to get attention in this way.

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Hippoland

JUNE 29, 2018

3) People pay to be in your audience when they attend events The interesting thing about events is that they are a good way to jumpstart your audience for a new product. And in fact, people will pay you to be a part of your audience that you can later market other products / services to. And it’s hard to get attention in this way.

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