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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs first map their assumptions and then test these hypotheses with customers out in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. We now have specific management tools to grow startups.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. Expo SF (May.

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Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

Steve Blank

I’ve been running our company, cycling through Customer Discovery and Validation and the board suggested that I was running out of bandwidth and needed some help in closing our initial orders. agile enough to deal with daily change, operating “without a map”. They suggested I get a VP of Sales to help.”.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly. This is lean development without any customer development. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The focus is on building.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Combining agile development with customer developm. Dear E, so good to come across this.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It would be a lot more efficient to send down a compressed packet with the entire sites data and presentation in an optimized format.