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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. The Adventure Begins.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers. Simple editing.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

He published our first wiki where the whole list of potential features were outlined. He made customer-to-customer dialog possible and visible. I was impressed with their desire to truly understand the customer. m-Via does financial remittances using mobile phones for people from the US to Mexico.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application?

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? So why you?

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Three decisions to make on virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

If you support mobile or prepaid cards for billing, they can even do it on their own, without approval, just using their discretionary income. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.