Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. Welcome to the Internet bubble.) See part one for the first time it happened. Good stuff too.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Videos/presentations. Customer service. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. What was cool was they recorded their interviews and posted them as YouTube videos. Syllabus is here.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It took too long to develop and … it really wasn’t ubiquitously accessible. Even if you created a video, the video was accessible but it required updates, those updates were expensive and the formats changed and so on. …. I will emphasize to pay attention to intellectual property issues as early on as you can.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

They saw the potential for emerging technologies to disrupt an existing market and built a successful business around doing so, all but killing the old video rental store model in the process. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

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