Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. Internet penetration in Beijing is greater than 70% while it’s less than 25% in Yunnan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces. The slide below from the Zhen Fund shows the breadth of business coverage of each of the Chinese Internet incumbents. New Rules for China.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

Everybody and their mom uses the internet to discover new brands, influencers and ultimately to buy new products and services. If you want to compete with them, you’re going to have to develop a reputation and a strong web presence yourself. Custom development. Custom developers can really bring your vision to life.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. Little did we know. It was fun watching it happen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup? Applied to a start-up, heres how it works. You can view previous essays in this series here: Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Tell Me How to Find You But having benchmarks in hand that showed us as the winner did us no good unless all our potential customers could see them. Our first thought was to spread the news ourselves, perhaps in a press release or a “white paper,” (remember this was pre-Internet.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 31, 2014

note: If you’re a startup, you’ll want to use customer development questions for your page to resonate with future traffic). The opinion they’ve subconsciously formed in between 1/13th to 1/50th of a second will influence every decision they make for the rest of their time on the page. image source. image source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) We all owe him our thanks for persevering.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

If there was any doubt among the teams about the value of what they’re learning, Blinken put it to rest with a compelling overview of how so many of today’s complex global problems – from stopping Ebola to monitoring cease-fires and improving food security – demand innovative, tech-based solutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Alas, they arent published in a dead-tree medium yet, so I cant say something like "they are the essential reference on my bookcase." No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2019

Cloud computing or rather the cloud can be described as the process of using a network of remote servers that are internet-based to process, manage and store data. The host ensures that the cloud’s services are efficiently delivered to the customer through the internet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? As companies grow, it becomes increasingly important to build an organization that can execute in multiple areas simultaneously. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Keeping the interactive unit separate from the rest of the company helped, he said. Filed under: Customer Development. Chris Schroeder. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip. Things started to slip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

At Razorfish, Craig’s lack of startup experience showed: We expanded too quickly, and in particular we merged with a company that was a complete culture clash with the rest of the company. When the Internet was on fire people said, “How do I make some money off this Internet thing?” He founded Mouth in 2012.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. So new conflicts appear.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chris Schroeder , Internet/media CEO, venture investor and author of Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East. Keeping the interactive unit separate from the rest of the company helped, he said. Filed under: Customer Development. Chris Schroeder. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Finding the right balance requires an understanding of the fundamental feedback loop that powers all startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Cars Direct / Internet Brands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

But in reality, most products fail because they are the Ice Cream Glove, that is, because there are no customers who will buy them. Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos). Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. These videos make an important point: that almost all product ideas sound bad.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 12, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This program is designed for people who have a stake in creating great products: engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and businesspeople—from companies of any size.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets. Read the rest. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis. Read the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? To that end, were tweeting about it, and would like to ask you to join us. The Geeks are doing their part. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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