Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Those who have tried to build apps that exist just as glorified landing pages or marketing channels have generally failed. The unexplored value of CPI ads is this: social networking apps give you the opportunity to practice advanced marketing techniques like true one-to-one marketing or permission marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Or, for something more substantive, how about the top five-most-read posts: Why PHP won Dont launch Five Whys Work in small batches The engineering managers lament But wait, theres more! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Read the very first comment (thanks tfitz!)

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Sales / Marketing. The key to your startup’s success is your sales, editorial or marketing operations most of which will be mainly happening offline. It’s your ability to create great content, build a great sales team or execute on marketing channels. The tech stuff is *really* easy and replicable by many.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For a marketing job, for example, its reasonable to expect that a candidate will have done their homework and used your product (maybe even talked to your customers) before coming in. For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" When Linus started what later on became Linux, he was at best a wet behind the ears developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? We had closer to several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. I had a big advantage, because Steve Blank , the father of customer development, got to see the failure up close and personal too as an investor and board member.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Eric - There is definitely a business/marketing analog to exactly this situation that happens a lot too. The long refactor of business model and market research (as opposed to more organic iteration) is just as bad. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 10, 2011

Each of the selected concepts for our first year of operating this microfund received $15,000 in equity capital and special arrangements with participating partners for marketing, accounting, legal and technology services. This is true in the typical areas of accounting, finance, marketing, fundraising (like other micro funds).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Lean Methodology Sources.

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