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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Part 4 of the Customer Development Manifesto to follow. Now the VP of Marketing starts sweating.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. End result? After twelve months Handspring’s revenue was $170 million.

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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. Key attributes of an entrepreneur on a founding team are passion, determination, resilience, tenacity, agility and curiosity. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

But because paid traffic is fundamentally a bidding war, its important that you have a differentiated ability to monetize customers better than other people who are bidding for the same traffic. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This has led to exponential growth.

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Make No Little Plans – Defining the Scalable Startup

Steve Blank

They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. A scalable startup typically requires external “risk&# capital to create market demand and scale. Customer and Agile development to find the business model. Lessons Learned.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

This success was aided by the fact that it did just one thing extremely well – its lack of extra features emphasized its differentiation. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. What if customers actually like the “crap&# product?

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

Instead, Facebook is the most popular social channel for customer service questions and is used twice as often as Twitter, which is the second most-used social media site. If you don’t have social as part of your customer service strategy, your business is missing out. Old school customer service rules haven’t changed.

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