Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual.

Startup 335

Startup Lean Incubator Business Model 335

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

Customer Development 126

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 126

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Intrepid – Mobile development. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review. Coworking Spaces and Accelerators.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? Most startups fail.

Customer Development 60

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. How You Can Benefit from All Your Stress | Heidi Grant Halvorson – Harvard Business Review – [link]. Ray Fisman-Harvard Business Review – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53