Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” They were all from somewhere in the intelligence community. On first glance it appears as if they are spending to much energy in the vertical portion of the jump, relative to the horizontal portion.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In hindsight it appeared clear that startups that survive the first few tough years do not follow the traditional product-centric launch model espoused by product managers or the venture capital community. Through trial and error, hiring and firing, successful startups all invented a parallel process to product development.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2009

It was the model for almost every military startup that followed, and its alumni who lived through its engineering and customer-centric culture had a profound effect on the rest of the valley, the intelligence community and the country. It had Hidden in Plain Sight.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2009

like community of users, that would allow citizens not only buy a car based on the open-sourced Volt, but built-it themselves with the pieces and improvements they prefer, taking in consideration their own personal necessities, preferences. | The official QGIA blog. , with the auto bailout. with the auto bailout.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. However, I think if I had understood the basics of Customer Development I might have done 5-6 startups rather than 8 to get to retirement. When I moderated my behavior it was when they were my startups.) I looked at my kids and never went back.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

This requires deep customer and competitive knowledge. Reply Peter Glaskowsky , on May 3, 2010 at 2:19 pm Said: Steve, my memory of this situation is different from yours. In an existing or resegmented market, this may include branding and product line extensions. Why do you think you were able to avoid this? In fact leashing [.]

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