Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. Tossing their agile development process and at times their entire business model in the air, the company would go into fire-drill mode and engineering would start working on whatever his latest insight was. .” he’d declare. “We

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Additionally, meeting with speakers grants students an opportunity to develop networking skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Establish a customer advisory board. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Additionally, meeting with speakers grants students an opportunity to develop networking skills.

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Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 189

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2014

2) Developing Mindful Marketing Habits. This can be done via developing a communication and implementation plan incorporating the following steps: Rehearsing and visualising how you will communicate your initiative or vision. Develop courage – and be willing to get fired! Write the plan. Achieving Your Marketing Zen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

This team had been working for many months in a standard agile configuration: a disciplined engineering team taking direction from a product owner who would prioritize the features they should work on. Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

With the right customer service app, you can consolidate all your customer conversations and interactions—across website, phone, email and social media channels—into one centralised place enabling fast, efficient and agile responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have already released the feature to a small, select group of beta customers or my customer advisory board, and I am meeting with them to discuss their feedback. You must be prepared to kill features , and it’s always easiest to kill a feature in the earliest stages before it develops a small but vocal group of devoted users.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 20, 2012

Here’s how: Develop the Product for the Few, Not the Many. Instead, successful startups solve this conundrum by focusing development and selling efforts on a very small group of early customers who have bought into the startup’s vision. Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Read the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? So why become an entrepreneur instead of developing technology in an R&D lab? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? If you only want to do one of these things, there are better options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. If you deceive customers by showing them screenshots of a product that is “in-development&# but for which you have written no code, are you lying to them?

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