Agile Customer Development Operations Viral 
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2013
Such direct experiences allows one to test critical “leap-of-faith” assumptions about what customers like and dislike. Customer development (the understanding of customer needs) must be married to agile development (a process which drives waste out of product development).
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. What is customer development?
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2010
Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.)
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Some products have relatively obvious monetization mechanisms, and the real risks are in customer adoption. Go on an agile diet quickly.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 6, 2008
When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Keep the team size small, maybe just two or three people.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Develop a landing page, do some lightweight advertising, and generally reach out to as many potential customers as you can.”.
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