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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip. Things started to slip.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

(Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones.