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. It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. Good stuff too.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Intellectual Property At the next class I said, “You all ought to get out and start talking to customers on day one, and get early feedback on your idea. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Now when my students begin their team projects, I list 13 vertical markets on the whiteboard.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Ideas are worthless when theyre another spin on a web 2.0 It was yet another Web 2.0 Shocking, I know.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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