Advisory Board, Customer Development and Programming

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.

Advisory Board

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean

Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

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. And without revenue how do we know if we achieved product/market fit to exit Customer Validation?” It’s an impressive portfolio.

Customer Development

Customer Development Web Developer Customer

Seven Reasons Why Customer Reference Programs Fail

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The program has to be well staffed so it becomes a seamless and well integrated part of your entire growth engine. There are certain predictable mistakes companies make that can derail customer reference programs before they ever get off the ground. She will drive the program from the beginning. For example: 1.

Programming

Programming Customer Social Media Advisory Board

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. How could I build a solution that would address those points?

Columbus

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development. ” We certainly did.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. How could I build a solution that would address those points?

Columbus

Columbus Entrepreneur Ohio Cofounder

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

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. Steve’s insight and inspiration during the Lean LaunchPad Educators Program was extraordinary.

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part X: Stanford Crosses the.

Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

All branches of the military (the Air Force and Army would fund the program as well) wanted Stanford to build prototypes of electronic intelligence and electronic warfare systems that could be put into production by partners in industry. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS California Government

Lessons Learned: About the author

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. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

San Francisco

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO

Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. IMVU had a roughly two-month-long development cycle. Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). Heres what it looked like. This is an exciting kind of change, usually.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Agile

Entrepreneurs Experience – Do It and Learn It

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. Steve’s insight and inspiration during the Lean LaunchPad Educators Program was extraordinary.

Delaware

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board

Startup Tools

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. It’s more reference material.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Create a members-only forum where only qualified customers (perhaps, paying customers) can post. Establish a customer advisory board. Hand pick a dozen customers who "get" your vision. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Amazon PostRank

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment

A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

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?

Audio

Audio San Francisco Video Continuous Deployment

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere show No. 4: David Lerner and Gary Marcus

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. . … I’ve seen so many of my colleagues are hiring entrepreneurship directors, creating new programs.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur Silicon Valley New York

Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The Extreme Programming folks call those "spikes", and generally don't check them in.) Are the engineers in the customer development team allowed to push quick and dirty "prototypes" to production? should the test subjects be part of the customer advisory board? Eric, great post.

Technical Review

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean

The curse of prevention

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Amazon PostRank

San Francisco

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment

Innovation inside the box

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Amazon PostRank

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? NESTA : They invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programs that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis. Being systematic about these hypotheses is what customer development is all about. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis. For that, release early, release often will suffice.

San Francisco

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment

Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Amazon PostRank

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. 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. Oh, this is just a Photoshop file?

San Francisco

San Francisco Customer Wiki Lean

Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups

www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Tactic-specific metrics – Obviously there are other metrics you will track depending on the types of programs you are running such as email metrics, website traffic metrics, attendance metrics, etc. I do this by program/campaign so I can compare email campaigns to pure advertising (for example). April Amrita Reply 13.

B2B

B2B Metrics Marketing Startup

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A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

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Innovation inside the box

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich

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