Customer Development Demand Design Open Source 
Steve Blank
JUNE 26, 2014
We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. We’ve pivoted our Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum. Lessons Learned.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Customer development. What is customer development?
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.
Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers. That requires building a company using Agile and Customer Development. Tools in the New Bubble.
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