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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

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. In the 20 th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth.

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Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

Steve Blank

He had raised a seed round and then a Series A from a name brand Venture firm. 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. Yeah, and they were great.

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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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