Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit). It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust.
Steve Blank
MAY 6, 2015
Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. activities necessary to implement the business model. Testing Hypotheses.
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The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. For starters, there are more startups. The number of new companies that launched each year has increased 234% since 1990.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 20, 2017
Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model? Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
To help shine some light on this topic, I’ve decided to do a series of blog posts of case studies of companies founded in the last 10-15 years that have made the transition from finding initial product-market fit to building a large, scalable, platform company. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But Iridium’s business model assumptions were fixed like it was still 1990. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer. A Customer Discovery and Validation process that was ongoing with product development could have provided early warning that its market was not developing in Iridium’s favor.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Listen to it.
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