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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?”

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

While he correctly understood how to frame his hypotheses with a business model canvas, and he was doing a good job in customer development – the third component of Lean is using Agile Development to rapidly and iteratively build incrementally better versions of the product – in the form of minimal viable products (MVP’s).

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

Why having a website is critical for business and personal branding. When it comes to making money online, business and personal branding are huge drivers of sales and influence. Company branding builds trust and an emotional connection between businesses and potential customers. Custom development. WordPress DIY.

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Founders: Learning should be your top 2013 New Year’s resolution

The Next Web

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger. Become a Web Developer from Scratch!

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

In short order they learned how to transition from being customers on the receiving end of a sales pitch to giving one. They knew the technology trendsetters in their fields and got us in front of them. To a person they became passionate evangelists and effective marketers.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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32 Business and Life Lessons: What I Learned Running Companies on 4 Different Continents

ConversionXL

After the year was over, I landed a job as a sales person for a property portal in Dubai. I quickly proved myself and was promoted to head a small sales and marketing team (6 people) in the company. Even though I learned a huge amount on marketing, leadership and business development, the whole thing was slowly eating me from inside.

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