Steve Blank

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How To Build a Web Startup – Lean LaunchPad Edition

Steve Blank

One of the problems they run into is building a web site. and Balsamiq and throwing together a web site. But for the rest of us mortals whose eyes glaze over at the buzzwords, the questions are, “How do I get my great idea on the web? What are the steps in building a web site?” Craft company hypotheses.

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Customer Development for Web Startups

Steve Blank

Ash Maurya , the CEO of WiredReach, has extended my work by building a model of Customer Development for Web Startups. Go read both of his posts on Discovery and Validation for web startups. What makes sense for startups selling Enterprise Software may not work for startups on the web. I think his process models are pretty good.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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Why Founders Should Know How to Code

Steve Blank

In a web/mobile startup coding is not an outsourced activity. Coding is the DNA of a Web/Mobile Startup. I was glad I had a lot of time in the car, because I was able to explain my belief that all founders in a web or mobile startup need to learn how to code. All great in theory but simply wrong. The same is true for coding.

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Playing With Fire – ChatGPT

Steve Blank

Over the last 50 years I’ve been lucky enough to have been present at the creation of the first microprocessors, the first personal computers, and the first enterprise web applications. First, you should definitely care. I’ve lived through the revolutions in telecom, life sciences, social media, etc.,

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

“After reading your post on Why Founders Should Know How to Code it looks like web/mobile startups have it easy. She started by sketching her business model canvas on a napkin, but somehow the conversation quickly shifted to what was really on her mind. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company?

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. While there are 564 million web users with 420 million having mobile web access, 74% of Chinese Internet users make less than $500/month and are students, blue-collar workers or jobless. Unlike U.S.

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