SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." " Today I had two conversations with early stage startups (see Free CTO Consulting ). Customer Validation 101.
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Steve Blank
JUNE 19, 2014
The key members of the team CEO, CTO, Principal investigator, need to be actively engaged talking to customers, partners, regulators, etc. The class provides real world, hands-on learning on how to reduce commercialization risk in early stage therapeutics, diagnostics and device ventures. Join the I-Corps @ NIH.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 8, 2009
We know Ben W was the CTO. Customer development isn’t just for [.] Reply Customer Development Oriented Lead Developer for Start-up – EventSession , on November 9, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said: [.] understands and groks Customer Development. Customer development isn’t just for [.]
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch Reply Chris Ryland , on October 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Said: Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture?
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 2, 2011
A lot of my time is spent helping early-stage companies get to proof points so that they can raise capital. They might have some seed money and are thinking or raising a Series A based on success of an early release (MVP). Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. I recently joined CoVenture , an early-stage venture capital firm that develops products and invests cash in exchange for equity.
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