Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
You dropped off your film at a film processor and instead of just getting physical prints of your pictures they would scan the film, and burn them onto a Compact Disc. I got a preview of PhotoCD when I was the head of marketing at SuperMac , a supplier of hardware and software for graphics professionals. would want to use it.
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Up and Running
APRIL 30, 2020
” It’s been a favorite management tool of mine since my time as VP for a market research firm, and it’s a method I used for decades growing a software company from zero to well over $10 million in annual sales. Simply put it’s a better method of accurately looking forward and business owners know better than mathematicians.
Up and Running
APRIL 27, 2020
There’s a great amount of uncertainty, people losing their jobs, and a direct hit on cash flows that can place businesses in dire straights. Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. We worked all day building market strategies for customers while we tried to embody our expertise on software that would expand the company's reach. Starting Startups. Amen.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2012
I got to spend time inside his company while I was using their software to analyze early-stage ventures. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. A Pivot a Week.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 9, 2017
This will also prepare your business for filing taxes. Estimate your monthly “burn rate.” Define Your Business Model. There are numerous types and will determine how you grow and run your business. B2C: Business to Consumer – Selling a product or service directly to the daily consumer.
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