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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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[Excerpt] Earlyvangelists: The Most Important Customers of All

ReadWriteStart

Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. The idea that a startup builds its product for a small group of initial customers rather than devising a generic mainstream spec is radical. The risk here is lost time and no product for customers to provide feedback against.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Customer Development. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro. Crunchbase.

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Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

Oct, 2010 Brand Marketing has Left the Building 21.

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