Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) It usually doesn’t end well.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG. ( This post co-written with Koen Bremer , Gyorgy Buslig , and Adham Hussein. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

We’ve taught two cohorts: 21 teams ending in December 2011 , and 24 teams ending in May 2012. In July 2012 we’ll teach 50 more teams, and another 50 in October. Few of the Principal Investigators or Entrepreneurial Leads had startup experience, and few of the mentors were familiar with Business Model design or Customer Development.

Lean 248

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 248

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Keen Home appeared on the TV show, Shark Tank , in 2012, landing one of the highest valuations in the show’s history. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. …That’s how you know you have a good team because some people are going to have bad days inevitably and you trust your team members to pick you up.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Those who don’t make it into the class are offered a variety of on- and off-line tools, including government-funded translations of Steve’s nine-part Udacity.com Customer Development lectures , excerpts from the Startup Owner’s Manual in Spanish, and they’ve translated a long list of Code Academy courses and other tools as well.

Colombia 321

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 321

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

Silicon Valley 215

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 215

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Thursday, 8 March 2012. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. But if tools are plentiful and costs resemble rounding errors, what stands in the way of the would-be entrepreneur of 2012? Development by Message and Adrian McShane. New technology for enquiring minds. Yiannopoulos. The Nutshell.

Cofounder 43

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Coder 43

Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

There are no model years to differentiate a Tesla Model S built in 2012 from one built this year. If your subscription revenue model “fires” a portion of your customers, i t may enable new competitors. Companies need to clearly communicate customer entitlements to future features.

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Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 329

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. His first startup, built soon after the birth of his son, was advertising on trucks.

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Europe 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A pair of wake-up-call studies by the Fournaise Marketing Group in London in 2011 and 2012 found that more than 70 percent of CEOs think that their chief marketing officers lack business credibility, lack the ability to generate acceptable growth, and lack the ability to explain how their programs will lead to increased business.

Marketing 211

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Community 211

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Those who don’t make it into the class are offered a variety of on- and off-line tools, including government-funded translations of Steve’s nine-part Udacity.com Customer Development lectures , excerpts from the Startup Owner’s Manual in Spanish, and they’ve translated a long list of Code Academy courses and other tools as well.

Colombia 271

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 271

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Lean LaunchPad class teaches students how to build a Lean Startup using business model design, customer development and agile engineering. Teams have to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week.) However, going through the customer development process showed me the danger in that kind of thinking.

Lean 269

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 269

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 267

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

On the eCommerce side, a 2012 report by invodo showed that over half of eCommerce buyers report feeling more confident in a purchase decision after watching a product video, and high quality videos can increase cart sizes by an impressive 174 %. image source. Do you have call tracking in place? ).

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Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

As vibrant as the China venture business has been, 2012 was a different story. The number of deals in Technology, Media and Telecommunications more than doubled in 2011 over the previous five years and slowed back down dramatically in 2012. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

He wrote the first book on startups in the Arab World, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East , and was previously the CEO and Publisher of washingtonpost.newsweek interactive and co-founder of HealthCentral.com , sold in 2012. Filed under: Customer Development.

Washington 285

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 285

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

After the 2012 conference I viewed it as an opportunity to reflect on the growth and evolution of the movement as a whole. 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. It's a big tent.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. Pete directed the investment of over $1.4B to these efforts over a three-year period. Read the Stanford case study about the Rapid Equipping Force.)

Channel 120

Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

What I saw yesterday is further evidence of this – 13 teams spent from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon using the Lean Startup Methodology, the concept of customer development, and the lean startup canvas to go from idea through a series of validated learnings to get to a better idea.

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Lean Los Angeles San Francisco Netherlands 136

www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Copyright © 2012 by Princeton University Press. Copyright © 2012 by Princeton University Press. ▼ 2012. (6). The Lean Startup at SXSW 2012. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development. Lessons Learned. by Eric Ries. Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits.

Equity 72

Equity Founder Technical Cofounder Cofounder 72

Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased. The short answer was no and whilst many of the businesses present had a large technology component to their company, with custom developed software etc they could not present themselves as a tech company.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

He founded Mouth in 2012. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. At the Rockwell Group, the architecture and design firm, he co-founded Studio Red and the Lab , an incubator for integrating digital technology into physical spaces. Send an email to terri@kandsranch.com describing your entrepreneurial journey.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Cofounder Entrepreneur IPO 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

He wrote the first book on startups in the Arab World, Startup Rising: The Entrepreneurial Revolution Remaking the Middle East , and was previously the CEO and Publisher of washingtonpost.newsweek interactive and co-founder of HealthCentral.com , sold in 2012. Filed under: Customer Development.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

She was the 2012 National Women in Business Champion for the Small Business Administration. The same year, President Obama invited her to attend a White House forum on jobs and economic development, and she was named Montana’s Entrepreneur of the Year. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Monaco San Francisco Cofounder 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

Columbus 245

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 245

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup. In 2012, we applied for and then were awarded a grant from NSF to do just that. When Steve and NSF created the I-Corps™.

Maryland 272

Maryland Lean DC Virginia 272

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Conference 2012. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6pm - 9pm. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 7pm – 9:30pm. Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6pm - 9pm. female founders.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

” April, 2012 – Andrew Chen writes Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing , which goes viral (2.4K September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

Retention 48

Retention Metrics Acquisition Conversion 48

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Brian Zuercher is the CEO and co-founder of Seen , a marketing software platform that is helping marketers tell the story of their brand and build relationships with their customers through consumer generated photos and videos. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. .

Columbus 120

Columbus Ohio Entrepreneur Cofounder 120

Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

If that’s just too complex a challenge for the state of the art in 2012, how about at least accepting PayPal ? On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero. Of course it wouldn’t; that would make entirely too much sense.

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Customer San Jose Southern California Marketing 143

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. In 2012, Insound created a new checkout process designed to be stunning on tablets & mobile phones. image source.

Conversion 112

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Search 112

joel.is

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Written on 18th November, 2012 • Comments. Of course, there is an element of “manager” activities whether it’s getting press or doing customer development, but a large portion of the work around building a great product and gaining traction is “maker” work by nature. Check out all 63 articles.

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Management Coder Java RSS 58

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. In 2012, Insound created a new checkout process designed to be stunning on tablets & mobile phones. image source.

Conversion 105

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Search 105

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. in developing these new models. It only emerges after an intense business model design and search activity based on the customer development process.

Lean 326

Lean Nepal Cofounder Customer Development 326

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. In 2012, Insound created a new checkout process designed to be stunning on tablets & mobile phones. image source.

Conversion 101

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Search 101

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. In 2012, Insound created a new checkout process designed to be stunning on tablets & mobile phones. image source.

Conversion 84

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Search 84

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2014

Patching together actionable information about your customers with gut feelings, good intentions and some duct tape is not a recipe for conversion success. If the above studies aren’t enough to make you start quivering in your boots, take a look at the debacle of JC Penney’s 2012 rebranding. Image via Bigstockphoto.com.

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Customer Analytics Conversion Lead Generation 133