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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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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

At the same time we were educating the press , we began to educate our own marketing department about what exactly we were supposed to be doing inside the company. During the first few weeks I asked each of my department heads what they did for marketing and the company.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I didnt include much on the blog at first, because I want you to judge what I write based on what I say, rather than who I am.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

This is the first of several posts on Durant versus Sloan. Peter Drucker wrote that Sloan was “the first to work out how to systematically organize a big company. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Sloan In the middle of the 20th Century Alfred P. One guy really did all of this.

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How Leveraging A Virtual Assistant Will Change Your Life

Duct Tape Marketing

We dive into what mistakes most people make when hiring virtual workers and what best practices to follow to work most effectively. Questions I ask Tricia Sciortino: [1:28] What has your entrepreneurial journey looked like? [3:04] 21:08] If someone is interested in working with BELAY, what’s the process?