Customer Development Design Distribution Green 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 3, 2014
— Its been three and a half years since I first designed and taught the Lean LaunchPad class and lots of water has gone under the bridge since then. And they were absolutely convinced what the world needed was an auto-driving lawn mover for institutions with large green spaces. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
The new design improved on the old one in several ways, but these improvements didnt translate all the way through the funnel. Usually, I think that means youve lost some good aspect of the old design. The designers might be telling you that the new design looks much better than the old one, and thats probably true.
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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.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
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.
Steve Blank
MAY 3, 2011
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.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 15, 2013
These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link].
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
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. Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.
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