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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

They were kind enough to sponsor a meet-up in San Francisco. I lived it as a developer for Palm handhelds and intricately involved with both companies at the business level. A link to it at Amazon: [link] Reply Labnotes » Customer Development: Past, Present, Future , on November 24, 2009 at 4:07 pm Said: [.]

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

I have a question though- do you think that most content metrics (the ebook example you mentioned) should be developed by the "author" to target their specific data, or do you think there are opportunities for a new business vertical that give these tools directly to the creator. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be. It’s very different than the traditional product development model.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. Crammed into Silicon Valley along with millions of people around the San Francisco Bay it’s hard to fathom that 15 air miles away was a stretch of California coast that was still rural. The bill had come due.

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The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part V: Happy 100th Birthday.

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School was courageous enough to give me a forum teach the Customer Development Methodology. Poulsen Wireless was later bought by Federal Telegraph of San Francisco. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.