Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

For the workshops, I didn’t prepare anything, I just jumped right in talking about my experience as well as the pros and cons of bootstrapping vs. raising money in 2017. I was known as "the bootstrapper" for years and have written numerous articles about it, spoken on panels, and more, but 2017 presents a whole new set of challenges.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 9, 2017

I previously alluded to some of my goals for 2017 with an overarching goal of focusing time on pre-seed companies. The next Rejectionathon on January 29, 2017 in Mountain View will be different. We’ll have challenges around customer development for hardware companies, pre-sales for physical products, and fundraising.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Each of their slide presentation 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. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Streak , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

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. This is June of 2017 when we’re having this conversation. Effectively you’re trying to create a person.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

But, I have done 0 health deals in 2018 (I did 3 in 2017). But, A) they could turn out to be horrible businesses since I haven’t done the customer development on any of these and B) as I mentioned before, the vast majority of companies I fund are not necessarily chasing any of these opportunities.

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