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.
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets. Read the rest. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis. Read the rest.
Steve Blank
JULY 29, 2013
(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.
usersknow.blogspot.com
APRIL 30, 2010
Is this feature usable, and is the UX reasonably consistent with the rest of my product? I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. The ROI isn’t good enough.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 11, 2009
The team rarely received any feedback about whether the features they were building actually mattered to customers. Whatever learning took place was happening by the product owner; the rest of the team was just heads-down implementing features. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
219 
Let's personalize your content