Business Model China Customer Customer Development 
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. business models. New Rules for China.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. business models. New Rules for China.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. ———-.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. China has simply become the factory.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 31, 2014
There’s nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. while building their products in China.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
Second, this class – which is built on the idea of interviewing customers/beneficiaries and stakeholders in person – now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How on earth would customer interviews work via video? Team SeaWatch – Maritime Security in the South China Sea.
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