YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

With new online technology, lean resources (think food cart/truck versus restaurant), cloud everything, you can “test” an idea with low risk and not too much money. They will, of course, but in the meantime, this large customer segment is changing and helping to create several new industries. There has never been a better time.

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San Diego United States Technical Review Lean 100

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

customer development. The free on-line class , hosted at Udacity is here. Some general customer development slides click here. The free on-line lectures, hosted at Udemy are here. Hosted by NCIIA , Stanford University and U.C. agile engineering. The Entreprenuers Checklist. Find it here.

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Open Source Silicon Valley Lean Customer Development 335

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2012

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. You also get a $50 credit for hosting and cloud computing services per each team, something that came in handy for those teams doing some Big Data implementations.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2015

Starting this Monday, March 9 th 4-6pm Pacific Time I’ll be on the radio hosting the Bay Area Ventures program on Sirius XM radio Channel 111 – the Wharton Business Radio Channel. Over this program I’ll be talking to entrepreneurs, financial experts and academic leaders in the tech and biotech industries.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Tesla is not. It's a great talk. The Curation Team.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Alexander Osterwalder and I spent last week in Salt Lake City, Utah as judges at the 2 nd Annual International Business Model Competition , hosted by Professor Nathan Furr , and his team at the BYU Center for Entrepreneurship. Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. The Business Plan ?-

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Business Model Customer Development Utah Business Plan 266

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development. More on this in a later post.)

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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.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Recent economic events, technological change, and the rapid diffusion of information about the old models have combined to help us all realize just how important entrepreneurship is - and just how little we really know about it. Not coincidentally, they were one of the first organizations to host me as a speaker.

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Lean San Francisco Wiki Startup 146

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Belmont Technologies – CAD in the Cloud (backed by Northbridge and NEA).

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In fact, at the time (1996-1997) we offered both a downloadable product, that our customers could install on their own servers, and a “hosted-offering”, which came to be known as “On-Demand”, then the “ASP” (Application Service Provider) model, and today we call it “SaaS” (Software as a Service). Today, we call that an “Embed-Code”.

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Revenue Developer Java Customer Development 72

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

New technology for enquiring minds. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. It’s long been observed that the barriers to creating a technology start-up have been falling over the past decade or so. The Kernel. Thursday, 8 March 2012. Yiannopoulos. The Nutshell. Editors’ Blog. Presented by.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 181

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 181

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. It was the first of the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks. China Venture Capital. innovation in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 271

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

In most cases, companies prefer to have it hosted by the cloud provider’s data center. However, others make sure that the servers are hosted within their premises. It basically includes the entire computing infrastructure hosted by the cloud service provider. Here, the cloud provider hosts the software on their servers.

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Cloud Artificial Inteligence Matching Hosting 103

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Heres my take.

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Combined with the technology trends above, it also enables rapid deployment strategies like just-in-time scalability. Customer development. What is customer development?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Website Analysis.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

He’s considering making me the permanent co-host so if you enjoy any of this episode or want to see me on the show on a more regular basis please Tweet @jason and let him know (he asked for direct feedback). Rumored: Digital Sky Technologies. I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis.

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Venture Capital Affiliate Valuation San Francisco 271

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

In a world of complex threats, dynamic opportunities, and diffuse power, effective diplomacy and development require institutions that adapt, embrace technology, and allow for experimentation to ensure continuous learning. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. National Service.

Lean 164

Lean Government Agile Africa 164

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

David Lin and the Microsoft China Accelerator was gracious enough to host two wonderful days of events for me. Startups here are primarily in what they call the TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) segment. It was the first of the 54 Science and Technology Industrial Parks. China Venture Capital. innovation in the U.S.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 163

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The goal is for them is to observe this class, then host and teach the next round of 50 NSF Innovation Corps scientist/engineer teams in July. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Yet this isn’t an incubator.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 260

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

My most recent startup created a marketplace for customers to buy and sell virtual goods for their 3D avatar. So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. My most recent startup created a marketplace for customers to buy and sell virtual goods for their 3D avatar.

San Francisco 119

San Francisco Management Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I catch up with Brian and we just talk about a whole host of things. He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. It’s when you pull back the curtain on the wizard that people get creeped out by automation technology.

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Community SEO Technical Review Audience 38

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

In a world of complex threats, dynamic opportunities, and diffuse power, effective diplomacy and development require institutions that adapt, embrace technology, and allow for experimentation to ensure continuous learning. Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. National Service.

Lean 120

Lean Government Agile Africa 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

A study by Wistia found the average play rate for “ business videos” hosted on their platform was roughly 30%. In another study, Wistia dug into the visitor data for their own homepage video & found that roughly 30% of their video views came from prospective customers. It’s not the technology. It’s the story. ”.

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Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong?

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