Customer Development Government Hiring Product Development 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 15, 2019
The type of disruption most companies and government agencies are facing is a once-in-every-few-centuries event. Ultimately, companies and government agencies need to stop doing this or they will fail. By process I mean all the tools that allow companies and government to scale repeatable execution. Process Versus Product.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. Given the stock market was buying “the story and vision” of anything internet, inflated expectations were more important than traditional metrics like customers, growth, revenue, or heaven forbid, profits. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed.
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Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 18, 2013
They close on the $750k, hire a buddy or two, buy some Macs, and get to work. 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.
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.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
Just a glance at recent headlines shows you the challenges we face: the (latest) debt ceiling crisis, the recent federal government shutdown, the Obamacare hurdles we must jump, plummeting consumer confidence. They’re afraid to hire, afraid to spend, afraid to risk. Directly engage the customer in the innovation process.
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. What we call “community management&# is actually governance.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
As part of their book campaign, Brant and Patrick have teamed up with General Assembly to offer 4 free online video classes, including: Lean UX Research Techniques - Rapid Prototyping - How to Hire Developers - Growth Hacking Every book pre-order get access to all of these classes - and quite a bit more. It's a big tent.
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