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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. . It was a disaster. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Or variations thereof. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal. Expo SF (May.

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How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly.

Startup Lessons Learned

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? Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May. Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0

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