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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work

Steve Blank

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. customer segments, such as users and payers or moms or teens. Lessons Learned.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Customer Development. AskAnything.VC

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

And when we do make bets, they’re small bets on incremental products or acquisitions that simply add to the bottom line.”. and how to price the product. for new product development that emphasize immediate returns. Bob looked wistful, “Our founders built a company known for taking risks and moving fast.

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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It’s actually pretty hard to find a good start-up job if you have no real engineering or user acquisition / product management skills. My business partner is still with the business, but I just didn't see a positive future without a strong technical co-founder. The timing just never worked out. Vinicius Vacanti WOW!