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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). You can get away with effective behavior in a large company.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

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Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Startup Tools

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AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. Present and explain your marketing campaign.

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Startup Resources

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Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Campaign Monitor. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? web analytics measure marketing campaigns.

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SuperMac War Story 2: Facts Exist Outside the Building, Opinions.

Steve Blank

The worst news : The worse news was what wasn’t said, less than 10% of our existing customers bought because of some proactive marketing campaign. We were losing money on every board we sold. No one remembered our ads, saw our reviews or had read a positive article about us.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II.

Steve Blank

and Britian can affect German war-fighting capability is by mounting a Strategic Bombing campaign , from England. The Americans and British split up the air campaign: the British bombed at night, the Americans during the day. I ultimately answered that call, joining Sun Microsystems with a 3-digit employee number.