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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

And for consumer hardware, no startup has to build their own factory as the costs are absorbed by offshore manufacturers. The result, startups now have tools that speed up the search for customers, reduce time to market and slash the cost of development. China has simply become the factory.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit. Our model at Casual Corp.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. link] The Best Programming Language for a Lean Startup [.] Will be looking forward to seeing the next piece that you do.