crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Paid Search: Are You Wasting Your Money? – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Then we were going to buy our competitors’ boards (think “secret shopper”) and compare them to ours. Thanks for sharing! Order Here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The students “get out of the building” and test their hypotheses in front of potential beneficiaries using the Customer Development methodology, all while building and updating their Minimal Viable Products. For the deputy secretary, such a dialogue in Silicon Valley is not a matter of charity, but necessity.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. There Are Plenty Of Failures In Silicon Valley, Thanks – [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. Does your startup require a miracle?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster. Customer development. For those interested in getting started with agile or customer development, I thought Id include a few links. What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Our CTO is the CEO himself, but he lacks the understanding of the new software development processes and the new technologies.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). I am trying to target potential customers (web developers) with ads on Facebook but I’m getting zero click thrus. You don’t need to move to Silicon Valley. What/How should I do?

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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?" John Furrier , Silicon Valley is my playground - Liv.

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