YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

by Bill Lee, author of “ The Hidden Wealth of Customers: Realizing the Untapped Value of Your Most Important Asset “. It’s hard to believe these are the methods and tools of a profession designed to attract and persuade us to become customers — especially when “we the buyers” increasingly ignore them. Pushy salespeople.

Marketing 234

Marketing Software Review Technical Review Social Network 234

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Copyright © 2012 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Entrepreneur 167

Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

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 216

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 216

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Nayeem explained why: Building a hardware product standalone is very, very difficult because you have to deal with supply chain, you have to deal with customer service, you have to deal with fulfillment. … Keen Home appeared on the TV show, Shark Tank , in 2012, landing one of the highest valuations in the show’s history.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Ohio Columbus Entrepreneur 120

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 252

Lean Incubator Business Model Georgia 252

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 322

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 322

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 Nevada 120

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 231

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

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 271

Lean New York City New York Customer Development 271

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 278

Colombia Lean Silicon Valley Coder 278

ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

With over 100 years of movie & video history embedded in our collective subconscious, your customer’s expectations are really high. In another study, Wistia dug into the visitor data for their own homepage video & found that roughly 30% of their video views came from prospective customers. image source.

Video 122

Video Software Review Cofounder Metrics 122

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

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 269

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 269

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. For customers t he venture firm brands don’t matter.

Washington 289

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 289

Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

One class of clear business opportunity, which wouldn’t exist in an ideal world, is created by the service that seemingly makes it as difficult as possible for potential paying customers to make it take their money. When it comes to inefficient outcomes and customer dissatisfaction, it’s hard to beat the U.S. Hallelujah!

Customer 143

Customer Southern California San Jose Marketing 143

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. The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere. It's a big tent.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

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 161

Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 161

ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2014

When was the last time you took a long hard look at what makes your customer base tick? Think customer personas – those detailed representations of the different segments of your target audience. The UK based customer experience management firm, Thunderhead.com, conducted a similar study of U.S.

Customer 133

Customer Analytics Conversion Lead Generation 133

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.

Lean 136

Lean Los Angeles San Francisco Netherlands 136

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

Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

He founded Mouth in 2012. Customer input shaped Amper’s product: One of the things that was really important to us was using Lean methodology. Before we had a clue what that was, (we had customer input). … How do you deal well with investors, with customers, with employees, with your colleagues?

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. For customers t he venture firm brands don’t matter.

Washington 120

Washington Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder 120

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. I always have to prove myself to customers, and I get many men who don’t know the first thing about taking care of their cars. Female entrepreneurs and business owners are no longer taken with a grain of salt.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur CTO Hire 48

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

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 246

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 246

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. 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.

Maryland 274

Maryland Lean DC Virginia 274

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. female founders. founder friday. Related articles from Women 2.0

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 Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Like Ott had mentioned in the Mastering The Call To Action a study of Visual Website Optimizer’s customers shows most people are testing: CTA Buttons – 30%. Potential customers thought they were being asked to buy the entire kit sight unseen. Headlines – 20%. Layout – 10%. Copy – 8%. That being said….

Conversion 112

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Like Ott had mentioned in the Mastering The Call To Action a study of Visual Website Optimizer’s customers shows most people are testing: CTA Buttons – 30%. Potential customers thought they were being asked to buy the entire kit sight unseen. Headlines – 20%. Layout – 10%. Copy – 8%. That being said….

Conversion 105

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Like Ott had mentioned in the Mastering The Call To Action article, a study of Visual Website Optimizer’s customers shows most people are testing: CTA Buttons – 30%. Potential customers thought they were being asked to buy the entire kit sight unseen. Headlines – 20%. Layout – 10%. Copy – 8%. That being said….

Conversion 101

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 101

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 327

Lean Nepal Cofounder Customer Development 327

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Like Ott had mentioned in the Mastering The Call To Action a study of Visual Website Optimizer’s customers shows most people are testing: CTA Buttons – 30%. Potential customers thought they were being asked to buy the entire kit sight unseen. Headlines – 20%. Layout – 10%. Copy – 8%. That being said….

Conversion 84

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 84

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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