Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Here’s how that happened.

Lean 315

Lean Customer Development Sales Cycle Business Model 315

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I know this language sounds formal and stuffy, but high-ticket service sales cycles are long. Much like our digital PR offering, we started with a lean operation: We used Google Sheets to manage content operations across all accounts, along with dashboards that each client had access to. niche down”). “If Image source ).

PR 120

PR B2B Lean Audience 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

They are gaining valuable customer data. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Every sale requires handholding and personal attention from the founders themselves. (For Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

of Opportunities – An opportunity is a lead that is now being actively managed by a sales person and is moving along the pipeline toward either a closed sale or a loss. For long sales cycles, it is important to measure this to estimate marketing ROI for tactics in the short term.

B2B 42

B2B Metrics Marketing Startup 42