1998 Business Model Customer Development Forecast 
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits are among the earliest adopters of new ideas such as Lean Startup and customer development.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. It was a technical tour de force.
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