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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Secondly, they had an owned & operated (O&O) website – Google.com – and Overture had shut down GoTo.com at the request of their very profitable and large distribution partners. The Wedding Channel. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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Watching My Students Grow

Steve Blank

And they were absolutely convinced what the world needed was an auto-driving lawn mover for institutions with large green spaces. The Customer Development process, this relentless drive to turn hypotheses into facts is what makes this learning so rapid. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 15: DJ Jayalath and Mark Hatch

Steve Blank

The importance of using customer feedback to shape Minimum Viable Products and why world-class founders are disciplined were topics discussed by the guests on the latest episode of Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111. Becoming a Green Beret is not a really easy feat. Failure is not an option. …

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

The concept of Partners , took some explanation as some teams confused partners with the Distribution Channel.). After a week of hectic customer discovery , the team further refined their new business model. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. free, distributed source code control management system. Bethnal Green Ventures. Customer Development. green tech. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank.