Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. The word entrepreneur covers a lot of ground. Make no little plans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. Those general managers are entrepreneurs , too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. When doing intense customer development, the problem team can attain a high level of empathy with potential customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Step 3: Brand and differentiate yourself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. We have certain advantages that we are confident will differentiate us, but these may not be apparent if we just released as soon as the basic functionality of our app was ready.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning started with Tim Berry ‘s 2008 “ Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan ” which was a new way for entrepreneurs to think about planning. Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. Do startups have a manual?

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. For some entrepreneurs this idea that the founder is not necessarily the CEO, is a surprise. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. It’s my idea!”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Discover whats in customers heads, and tackle problems where design is a differentiator. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

At a campsite almost two miles high our daughters adopted a young couple, and over the campfire I found out they were Stanford MBA’s and entrepreneurs. Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. They are agile, resourceful and aggressive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

We knew IMVU would be a socializing platform, and so we decided that we would let our customers interact using their own rules for assigning status, like we do in the physical world. The companies that own those brands work hard to differentiate their offering so that people who wear their clothes will be perceived in a certain way.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Johnson & Johnson , for example, makes hundreds of highly differentiated products that serve doctors, nurses and patients. Please Share!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/12/ardent-3-supercomputer-porn – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Reply links for 2009-10-13 « Blarney Fellow , on October 13, 2009 at 6:10 pm Said: [.]

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