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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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The Product Development Model « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. 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.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about 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. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. Any of this sound familiar? Thanks for sharing.

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Tech Support *is* sales

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. Yes, I'm flagrantly paraphrasing the legendary Kathy Sierra , but the idea applies as much to tech support as to product development.).

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Startups Need Focus To Cross All The Chasms

Startup Professionals Musings

Product development chasm. Another common chasm is never-ending product development. Focus is required to resist adding a few more neat features, made possible by the new technology, which in fact make the product more complex to use, impossible to test, and very expensive in time and cost. Marty Zwilling.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Two years after release, product market share was up by 30% to 70%. The team followed these rules: Cardinal Rules of Synchronous Customer and Product Development. Tag data and quotes. Twelve of 17 competitors were gone. The division was the dominant global player. Don’t sell a vision! False positives result. Take Notes.

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Agile Marketing, Part II

OnlyOnce

I wrote about this years ago when I was temporarily running Marketing and was noting a lot of the similarities between running contemporary Product Development and Marketing efforts. Tags: Business Marketing Technology agile marketing marketing product development.

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