Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. No need to worry about security and such. s easier to use/develop with. Elevator Pitches. Customer Support. GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. turn customer feedback into action. Cloud Security.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage. 60s elevator pitch).

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