Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Along the way, the company faced many of the same challenges that Lean Startup practitioners experience: balancing new customers and product lines with existing ones. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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JUNE 12, 2020

This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 25, 2014

The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. The Ultimate List of Customer Development Questions – crowdspring.co/1nHT6tS. Graphic Designer Reimagines Every World Cup Poster From 1930–2014 – crowdspring.co/1ms7eY0. A 3-Day Weekend…Every Weekend? 1iDkpok.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In 2014, Business Insider listed Dan as one of the top 46 African Americans in Tech. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Before setting out on his own, Dan held various product, research, and operations roles at Salesforce , SurveyMonkey , Forrester Research , and The Ladders. Tune in Thursday, Oct.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

Prior to founding Andela , he co-founded 2U , an education technology startup that went public in 2014. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Clips from their interviews are below. Jeremy Johnson is an education innovator. New Targets & Innovative Approaches.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Prior to founding Andela , he co-founded 2U , an education technology startup that went public in 2014. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Clips from their interviews are below. Jeremy Johnson is an education innovator. New Targets & Innovative Approaches.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Education list in 2014, Mandela Schumacher-Hodge is a former high school teacher who later served as global director of Education Entrepreneurs, a Gates Foundation initiative operated within UP Global, now Techstars. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Business Plan vs. Business Model + Customer Development. The next step was getting out of the building and testing the business model in a formal process – and that process is Customer Development. But you can’t fake a business model/customer development presentation. Come join us. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Startups could now get a first version of a product out to customers in weeks/months rather than months/years. You have to deliver.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014. Takashi and Masato founded Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab (LEL) in 2014. . — Or, click on the links to hear Pete discuss: — — — — John Kuhn served 20 years in U.S.

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JULY 23, 2014

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. Proposals from potential I-Corps L teams will be accepted through September 30, 2014. Class starts January 2015. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 1, 2015

Thibault Duchemin and his team applied for our Lean LaunchPad class at UC Berkeley in 2014. Customer Development for us meant a lot of hard-won learnings. The endless emails we received describing the exact need we had uncovered were the powerful validation of the customer development approach. Here’s his story.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. That’s what our COO Noah Parsons regularly tells us, and it’s the exact advice Joe Marushack, chief startup officer and executive director of Rain, Eugene, gave us at Google’s Startup Weekend in 2014.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

The SBIR/STTR program made ~6,200 seed stage investments in 2014, dwarfing the seed investments made by venture capital. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , NSF (National Science Foundation) , Teaching. Eleven U.S. The SBIR/STTR program represents a critical source of seed funding for U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. The teams presented in front of several hundred people in person and online.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2014

” While I guess this is better data than not talking to any potential customers, a statement like this is at best, insufficient customer development , and at worst, a false positive that will eventually run your startup aground. When I hear variations of this in pitch meetings at Homebrew it’s never convincing.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2015

The MA group did extensive legal work on this and the MA legislature passed a bill for it as part of their 2014 Jobs Act. But, like Steve Blank and Eric Ries inspire us to do, we are just launching, aggressively doing customer developing, and iterating rapidly. I watched from the sidelines with intrigue.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

He was elected to Congress in 2014 and serves on the House Armed Services Committee, the House Budget Committee and the House Small Business Committee. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. David Petraeus. I thought there was no question. This is so obvious.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Steve Blank has also said many a time that in order for a startup to do customer development they need to get out of the building and talk to people. ” In Spring Quarter 2014, I taught a special topics class at Stanford called CS549: HCI in the Real World as an experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In mid-2014, I re-read The Lean Startup and suddenly things started to make sense. The customer development theory was an eye opener and gave us the final push to launch this venture. Managers did not seem to really understand the users' pains and the way they currently go about solving their problems. “In

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Whether you’re a startup business building an audience or an existing brand struggling to establish a solid base of loyal customers, developing a marketing strategy that heavily emphasizes user-generated content will benefit your product one way or another. A good example is Starbucks’ successful design-a-cup campaign in 2014.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

June 2014 – Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown write Startup Growth Engines: Case Studies of How Today’s Most Successful Startups Unlock Extraordinary Growth , which defines growth strategies as growth engines. Conducted Customer Development. Established a strong value proposition based on Customer Development.

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