Customer Development Engineer Global Product Development 
Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. Frank Robinson of SyncDev has been helping companies figure out their minimum viable product and pivots since 1984, long before I even knew what it meant.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 3, 2015
During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, science and engineering at both Stanford and U.C. Berkeley were heavily funded to develop Cold War weapon systems. The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talented product developers. Your most powerful growth engine is your existing customer. Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 29, 2010
Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. People, not as much. People, not as much.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2010
When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. We all owe you.
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