Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. Dave was building a mobile app for matching college students who needed to move within a local area with potential local movers.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 30, 2013
Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I was impressed with their desire to truly understand the customer. Back then it seemed foreign.
joel.is
NOVEMBER 30, 2012
The great piece is focused around two sets of distinct people in a startup: makers (typically coders) and managers (those with lots of meetings). Earlier this year, we realised how powerful mobile will be for Buffer, but the team was small and we had no spare resources for Android development. Meetings cost them more.
www.women2.org
MARCH 8, 2012
After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 7, 2008
The App Store is a channel for customer acquisition. For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
www.quora.com
JANUARY 16, 2011
" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.
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