Customer Development Founder Government Product Development 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. The result?
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited. Sound familiar?
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.
K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 19, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Will you join us? I think the benefits are a no-brainer.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 26, 2009
They assume that each person on the team is genuinely interested in testing their work and ideas against the reality of what customers want. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board. It was absolutely worth it.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 3, 2009
If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Now, I dont think even most dot-com era founders were bad people, I just think traditional startup methods make it too easy to become confused about whether were creating real progress or not.
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