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| Page 1 of 7 | Previous | Next | INSTIGATOR BLOG NOVEMBER 21, 2011 The Curse of Knowledge in Product Design (Powered by LaunchBit ) You know your product best. You know what’s coming next in the product roadmap. Startups are often struck by the Curse of Knowledge, specifically when it comes to product design and development. Make sure you talk in your customer’s voice when designing your product. | | | | | | |
| | | | STEVE BLANK AUGUST 27, 2009 The Leading Cause of Startup Death – Part 1: The Product. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries. agree. | | | | | | | | |
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K9 VENTURES | FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 2010 Revenue Development
SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Go figure. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009 The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.
This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Once the product begins to ship, startup sales execs use orders and revenue as its marker of progress in understanding customers. Look at the product development diagram. Order Here. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010  Rounded Corners, Wasted Time and Technical Burden
Rounded corners just looked so much better with the design we were implementing. Every startup faces day-to-day product decisions like rounded corners. Instead of investing in rounded corners, we should have asked ourselves, “Will this feature sell more product?&# I’ll admit it. love rounded corners. Launch quickly. MORE >> -
SCOTT WEISS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 Disrupting Proctor & Gamble
Their “big bang” approach shoots out a new product globally with the hopes of propelling it to over $1 billion in sales in the first few years. This process usually takes about 18 to 24 months and results in about a 50 percent success rate for new products. So why do thousands of people help Quirky make products? They get paid! MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank
In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. End result? MORE >>
- The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
- Startup Idea/Seeking Developers to Bid on a Project DAVID TETEN | MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012
- Design Staff � Does your startup need a designer co?founder? DESIGN STAFF | THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
- Good enough never is (or is it?) STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
- Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. 500 HATS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2010
- Product Planning Series: Information Architecture, Flowcharts and Wireframes STARTUP MUSINGS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
- Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2008
- Cargo Cult Game Design BRAD HARGREAVES | SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 2010
- Maybe not so much with the "optimization" A SMART BEAR: STARTUPS AND MARKETING FOR GEEKS | MONDAY, APRIL 5, 2010
- Design Staff � Shortening the build-measure-learn cycle with. DESIGN STAFF | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
- Product Planning Series: From use cases to storyboards STARTUP MUSINGS | SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2011
- The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2009
- Product Planning Series: Requirements STARTUP MUSINGS | TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011
- Design Staff � How to spot a design-friendly startup DESIGN STAFF | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
- Are You Planning to Sell Boxes or Hours? TIM BERRY'S BLOG - PLANNING STARTUPS STORIES | FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011
- 4 Principles Apple's Chief Designer Lives By FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012
- When an idea is 10+ years ahead of its time STARTUP MUSINGS | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
- Design Your Business Like a Product FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013
- Should Your Product Be a Service? STARTUP DAILY | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011
- Twitter Link Roundup #57 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More CROWDSPRING BLOG | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2010
- Twitter Link Roundup #130 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More CROWDSPRING BLOG | FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012
- Product Development Tips from a Mom Who’s Gone from Idea to Expo THE MOGUL MOM | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011
- Twitter Link Roundup #53 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More CROWDSPRING BLOG | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
- Product Planning Series: Project Management STARTUP MUSINGS | THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011
- The Product Development Model « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
- Software and Making Money (Presentation Slides Included) TONY WRIGHT DOT COM | FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2009
- Create: The Simple 6-Step System to Get It Done THE MOGUL MOM | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
- Hello World! LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2011
- Tour de Force: How To Get Much More Out Of Your Customer Tours YOUNGUPSTARTS | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013
- Betting on a Rumor Mill: The Weird Reality of Designing for Apple FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 2012
- Startup Visa update STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010
- Cupcake App Wars MARK BIRCH | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2012
- Think You Know What You Want? LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
- Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to. STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2008
- iPad as a source of inspriation GUY NIRPAZ | FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2010
- Small business and startup tips: 5 traps of business branding CROWDSPRING BLOG | SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2011
- Technical Skill: How Much Do You Need? LAUNCHING TECH VENTURES | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2011
- Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since. STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2009
- Recruiting Startup Engineers | Femgineer FEMGINEER.COM | SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2010
- Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review) STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2010
- How I Use YouTube to Market My Business FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012
- 9 Deadliest Start-up Sins STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012
- Design/story Opens Their Collections To General Public ARCTICSTARTUP | MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2011
- How We Build Features ASH MAURYA | MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
- Some ideas matter, just not the ones you think GABRIEL WEINBERG | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2013
- Lessons Learned: Work in small batches STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2009
- 5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009
- No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
- The Death of the Business Founder INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2010
- Always Be Pitching INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
- Embrace technical debt STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 2009
- Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2010
- Steve Blank vs. Steve Jobs SEEING BOTH SIDES | SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012
- I Hacked Focus LEARN TO DUCK | SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2012
- Massacre at IBM STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012
- Minimum Viable Team THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012
- There's a Pattern Here « Steve Blank STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2009
- Raising Money Using Customer Development STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2009
- Joining Union Square Ventures UNION SQUARE VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
- Never, ever outsource your core VERSION ONE VENTURES | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013
- Five Rules to Prevent Startup Project Scope Creep STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011
- Small Features INSTIGATOR BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011
- Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison SOCAL CTO | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2009
- TIME.com Redesign: a Responsive Global News Site | TIME.com TECHLAND.TIME.COM | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013
- What Makes an Entrepreneur (2/10) – Street Smarts BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009
- Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft) STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
- The Ideal Startup Team – Is Going Solo a Good Idea? ORRICK TOTAL ACCESS | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
- Four myths about the Lean Startup STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2010
- Accelerator vs. Incubator: What’s the Difference? FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012
- Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
- 9 Deadliest Start-up Sins FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012
- Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2010
- Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2008
- Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do? STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
- A 50-Point Checklist For Creating The Ultimate Landing Page UNBOUNCE.COM | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2012
- Warby Parker of Shoes? Meet Beckett Simonon FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2013
- Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed: Sean Parker SCOTT EDWARD WALKER | WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011
- Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2009
- Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2009
- Why CEOs Shouldn’t Mess with Engineers ONLYONCE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
- Building an MVP in 10 days BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2012
- The Entrepreneurial Age VENTURE HACKS | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2013
- Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
- How to Crowdsource Anything FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
- Is Not About Perfection, It's About Iteration GET VENTURE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011
- Developing Strong Product Owners SVPG | THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2011
- When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2010
- New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2013
- Apple vs. Samsung: Why 'Cool' Isn't Enough to Win FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2013
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