Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Through trial and error, hiring and firing, successful startups all invented a parallel process to product development. In particular, the winners invent and live by a process of customer learning and discovery. It’s a process that doesn’t exist in large companies with existing customers and markets.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Microsoft will be making scholarships available to companies in their BizSpark program; stay tuned for details. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

These two principles combine to free up tremendous resources for raw R&D and innovation, because so few people are stuck working on "death march" internal projects or maintaining low-success released products. For one, capacity development. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Be sure that you´ve already helped me and some friends a lot (down here in Brazil) to become better entrepreuneurs. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? As you said, though you didn´t catch any of those really big waves, you ended up learning a lot.

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