Agile Customer Development Mobile Startup 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 31, 2009
After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. Product Development Diagram 1.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
A startup is not just about the idea, it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. I was driving home from the BIO conference in San Diego last month and had lots of time for a phone call with Dave, an ex student and now a founder who wanted to update me on his Customer Discovery progress. In fact, it wasn’t even a startup.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
How do you figure out what’s the right mix of skills for the co-founders of your startup? I was having breakfast with Radhika, an ex-grad student of mine who wanted to share her Customer Discovery progress for her consumer hardware startup. I told Radhika this is a perennial question for startups. ——-.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 15, 2019
Today, as large organizations are facing continuous disruption, they’ve recognized that their existing strategy and organizational structures aren’t nimble enough to access and mobilize the innovative talent and technology they need to meet these challenges. Companies Run on Process. Process Versus Product.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
Over the last three years our Lean LaunchPad / NSF Innovation Corps classes have been teaching hundreds of entrepreneurial teams a year how to build their startups by getting out of the building and testing their hypotheses behind their business model. The next customer segment we tried was startup founders.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
The growth of social networking, the spread of mobile devices, and the advances in the use of cloud computing have changed how people consume content from the news and media industry. Furthermore, developers can also create new device platforms in less time and using fewer resources compared to more traditional methods.
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