Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
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. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.
www.instigatorblog.com
MARCH 2, 2010
The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?
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Steve Blank
JUNE 6, 2016
A thought leader in the area of big data analytics, social media, optimization, machine learning, and data mining, he also served as a Venture Advisor focusing on big-data analytics at Trident Capital , and was on the advisory board of several startups. . Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners.
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. He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.
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. I offered that at Epiphany, my partner Ben’s office was the first place I would go when I thought I had new “insights.” And that’s where the problem was.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.
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.
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