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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. The result?

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

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. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot

Startup Lessons Learned

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. Because kaChing prefers its portfolio managers to have a long track record, the marketplace launch (i.e., A portfolio manager’s entire track record & holdings had to be disclosed.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design. Your first product will likely be just a little bit ugly, and thats okay — its part of getting to market quickly and testing your idea in front of live customers. Not Embracing Agility. "If Most features/options/buttons/settings/etc. Hiring Poorly.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

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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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Resources

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Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. LiveRoad : A Great IDE for design is very helpful. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Color Scheme Designer. Customer service. Event platforms.