Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. He said that because the Club Penguin team was clear about their “why,” they embraced being acquired by Disney in 2007: Our goals weren’t about an exit.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

When I first started teaching customer development (searching, validating and executing a business model), one of my students pointed out that customer development was similar to the theory of a military strategist, John Boyd. Customer Development Science and Industrial Policy Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Lane’s first startup was Club Penguin , the largest online virtual world for kids, which was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2007 for $350M. He said that because the Club Penguin team was clear about their “why,” they embraced being acquired by Disney in 2007: Our goals weren’t about an exit.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Is there a junior or senior developer from a previous gig who will respect you for a previous role and be ready to build their own baby with you? So, while you’re slaving away on your customer development while keeping an eye out for your technical match, you could do worse than read Paul Graham’s 2007 essay, How not to die.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Jun 2007 Baylor) Stanford Researcher Neuroscience, postdoc, BS biology from Peking University. ——— Next week each team tests their value proposition hypotheses (their product/service) and reports the results of face-to-face customer discovery. If you can’t see the slide above, click here. Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

More than 1,600 VC investments in TMT have been made since 2007, with a record high of 436 in 2011. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' Liquidity is via IPO’s not buy outs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Kerry Frank co-founded Comply365 in 2007 with her husband. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Vaughn : You’re in a better position when you know what it is because you don’t have anything and they’re stuck with what they have. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. ” . …

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In 2007 the Ministries of Science and Finance raised the stakes to get VC’s focused on funneling more VC money into growing startups – they set up a Venture Guiding Fund. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. That is customer development.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. Every year since ’98 was the year of mobile and it didn’t really happen until the iPhone 2007.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In 2007 the Ministries of Science and Finance raised the stakes to get VC’s focused on funneling more VC money into growing startups – they set up a Venture Guiding Fund. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

If I had to go all the way back to 2007 when I left my wall street job, I would have done this option. In a Lean Startup-inspired business, where product development and customer development are closely aligned, you need both the tech and non-tech cofounders to understand each other's problems.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. ” Blank’s main innovation here is what he calls Customer Development, which is a methodology for learning and validating market needs through detailed customer communication and follow up.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

That’s because they require you to have a deep understanding of your customers. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. On the surface, these three questions—who, what, and why—don’t seem hard to answer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? BusinessWeek named me one of the top young entrepreneurs in tech , based on my work at IMVU.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This was in 2007. I walked into the Air Panama office and the CEO told me “we have been waiting for somebody like you” They still use parts of the website I built for them back in 2007. When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. I was wrong.<

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved toward a more agile planning process. ” Blank’s main innovation here is what he calls “customer development,” which is a methodology for learning and validating market needs through detailed customer communication and follow up.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early. The great thing is, in 2007, we visited 75+ resorts for a demo tour, and have many leads I can follow up on. A few nuggets. 1) Hire A’s.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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