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| Page 1 of 31 | Previous | Next | | | STEVE BLANK NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Creating Startup Success – Customer Development + Business Model Design In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. link]. Teaching In the Big Apple. link]. | | | | | |
| STEVE BLANK MAY 14, 2012  9 Deadliest Start-up Sins These founders specify, design, and build a fully featured product using classic product development methods without ever leaving their building. | SOCAL CTO JANUARY 26, 2010  Startup CTO or Developer What worries me a bit is how often I read that startups should hire a developer / hands-on lead developer. Gap closed, right? Accounting? | GENUINE VC JANUARY 23, 2012 Start Your Marketplace Engines Communities like those of uTest (software QA testers), as well as NextView portfolio companies GrabCAD (mechanical engineers) and thredUP (parents), which resulted in marketplaces had origins in this approach. Develop/leverage meaningful relationships so sellers are patient during an initial phase. Brute force a mini-market and expand. | | | | | | | | |
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HIGH CONTRAST | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011 Getting developer interviewing right
Much buzz today on HN about developer hiring with Evan Carmi sharing his Google interview experience , which mostly consisted of language trivia and algorithmic tasks, and a devininterviews follow up arguing that this interviewing style leads to bad hires. don’t think there is one right developer interviewing technique. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 Why Too Many Startups (er) Suck
Find the right trajectory for your business and focus not only on reaching it, but on assuring that the result is a sustainable, repeatable profit engine that can perform and grow healthily over time. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer DevelopmentThis is a guest post by my Startup Owner’s Manual co-author Bob Dorf. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012  Vision versus Hallucination – Founders and Pivots
It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. Filed under: Customer Development. MORE >> -
FELD THOUGHTS | TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2011 A Great Graduation Speech For Engineers And Entrepreneurs
My friend Krista Marks (now at Disney – which acquired her first company – Kerpoof ) sent me a copy of the graduation speech she gave at the University of South Carolina College of Engineering and Computing on May 8th. In 1989, I graduated with degree in Electrical Engineering from the USC. Enjoy and be inspired! *. MORE >> -
STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2009 Customer Development is Not a Focus Group
Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted. It’s not. minds? Thanks. MORE >>
- The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2010
- Why Product Managers Wear Sneakers STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
- Optimizing for developer happiness CODE AS CRAFT | MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2011
- The Engineer Exchange Program CODE AS CRAFT | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
- Open Source Entrepreneurship STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- B2B Customer Development MARKET BY NUMBERS | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
- It’s a Big Step from Engineer to an Entrepreneur STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012
- How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
- Strategy is Not a To Do List STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010
- Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
- Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
- Massacre at IBM STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2012
- Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 2010
- Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 2010
- Design Staff � How designers and engineers can play nice (and. DESIGN STAFF | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
- Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011
- The Academy For Software Engineering A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
- Why Pioneers Have Arrows In Their Backs STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010
- Introducing The Commitment Engine DUCT TAPE MARKETING | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
- Death By Competitive Analysis STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010
- You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011
- Why CEOs Shouldn’t Mess with Engineers ONLYONCE | MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2010
- Reverse Engineering a Career THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011
- At times not losing is as important as winning STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 2012
- Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup SOCAL CTO | MONDAY, JULY 23, 2012
- Divide and Concur CODE AS CRAFT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2011
- Startup Business Development Strategies: 7 Tips For Putting. SEED STAGE CAPITAL | SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010
- 5 Mistakes Developers make Selling to Developers 47 HATS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010
- 5 Mistakes Developers make Selling to Developers 47 HATS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010
- 5 Mistakes Developers make Selling to Developers 47 HATS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2010
- More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup FELD THOUGHTS | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2011
- GoInstant is Hiring Web Developers and a Senior QA Engineer INSTIGATOR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2011
- How Scientists and Engineers Got It Right, and VC’s Got It Wrong STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011
- The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution. STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
- Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2008
- Driving developer adoption HAZARD LIGHTS | FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
- The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, JULY 5, 2010
- Unrequited Love STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JULY 24, 2012
- Why Software Development Estimations Are Regularly Off DIEGO BASCH | SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012
- How To Scale a Development Team ADAM.HEROKU.COM | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012
- Human Engineering and Emotional Intelligence for Startups VC CAFE | SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2012
- Lessons Learned: What is customer development? STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2008
- A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1 STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011
- Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 2 ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2010
- Kathy Sierra: Building the minimum Badass User, Business of Software. A masterclass in thinking about software product development. BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2013
- [Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley YOUNGUPSTARTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2012
- AppDirect’s Developer Incubator aims to help engineers become entrepreneurs through apprenticeship THE NEXT WEB | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2012
- Startup Suicide – Rewriting the Code STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
- The Lean LaunchPad Online STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
- The non-developer’s guide to hiring software developers THE NEXT WEB | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2012
- What Now? Product Release PETER LEVINE | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
- When do I *stop* doing customer interviews and start writing code? A SMART BEAR: STARTUPS AND MARKETING FOR GEEKS | TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012
- The Startup Team STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
- Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer SCOTT WEISS | THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2012
- Optimizing Search Engine Rankings with Microsites 47 HATS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
- Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011
- Careers Start by Peeling Potatoes STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2012
- The Principles of Product Development Flow STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | MONDAY, JULY 13, 2009
- Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent CODE AS CRAFT | MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2012
- Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use WWW.READWRITEWEB.COM | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2011
- Entrepreneurs as Dissidents STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2012
- How to Use Google Docs to Get Continuous User Feedback CURRENTLY OBSESSED | WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011
- 7 Worst Entrepreneurial Perceptions From Engineers STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013
- Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 2010
- Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: The Dojo Toolkit. WEB 2.0 DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS LESSONS | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010
- Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: Why are you Still Making. WEB 2.0 DEVELOPMENT AND BUSINESS LESSONS | SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2011
- Are Marketers Now Required to be Engineers Too? STARTUP MARKETING BLOG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
- No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake. STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
- Who You Gonna Call? Navigating the Existential Crisis JOHN O'FARRELL | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
- Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011
- Did you ‘try’ it before you committed? CODE AS CRAFT | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
- How I learnt to grok Customer Development ASH MAURYA | MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2009
- Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum STEVE BLANK | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012
- How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup YOUNGUPSTARTS | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
- Search versus Execute STEVE BLANK | MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
- Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010
- Top 15 Books to Ensure You Kick Some Entrepreneurial Butt in 2013! BLOGTREPRENEUR | ENTREPRENEUR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013
- China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5) STEVE BLANK | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013
- Confession Of An Internet Marketer DAZZLINDONNA | MONDAY, JULY 11, 2011
- 250 Developers THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2011
- [Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012 YOUNGUPSTARTS | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2013
- Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers SOCAL CTO | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2010
- The Road To Enhanced Online Marketing Begins With The User DAZZLINDONNA | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011
- Startups: Stop Trying To Hire Ninja-Rockstar Engineers ONSTARTUPS | MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 2012
- Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2 STEVE BLANK | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012
- How does Etsy manage development and operations? CODE AS CRAFT | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011
- The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses STEVE BLANK | TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2011
- Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013
- “Me-too” products are fine BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2012
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