Customer Development Document Management Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
Every startup has some methodology for product development, launch and life-cycle management. At their best, these processes provide detailed plans, checkpoints and milestones for every step in getting a product out the door: sizing markets, estimating sales, developing marketing requirements documents, prioritizing product features.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development.
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Steve Blank
JANUARY 27, 2011
student of our MS&E department at Stanford ,) where they are set on being a leader in developing the management science of entrepreneurship. This startup search process is the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Business Model Versus Business Plan.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
What you’re holding in your hand is a revolutionary document. These formalized structures, necessary for managing execution/exploitation, actually strangle disruptive innovation before it can start. In short, it requires a different way not only to manage a company, but a different way to organize it as well.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
This post describes a solution – the Customer Development Model. In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.
Up and Running
MAY 18, 2016
In this book, you’ll get step-by-step advice on how to align strategy, tactics, milestones, and assumptions, without having to worry about creating a business plan document. Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). What I thought would be a simple port is actually a major project I don’t have time to manage.
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