Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. Unlike Intel chips, MIPS chip architecture also made it possible to plug in a math co-processor. to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2012
It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. He was constantly in front of customers, listening, selling, installing and learning. Or by then other customers would tell us something quite different. Which required Ben hearing from the same customers I did.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2009
It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. The downside was that we had to combine dozens of projects whose internal architectures, coding styles, and general quality varied widely. Sometimes quick and dirty actually incurs less debt.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. Filed under: Customer Development , E.piphany.
www.rocketwatcher.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
Most startups start out with only 1 or 2 offerings and often aren’t thinking about how things might fit into a naming architecture. advisory board. advisory council. customer development. customer retention. customer service. At IBM naming was a real issue. Nor should they, I think.
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