Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

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. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

After these slides, these VC’s recognized that this company had dramatically reduced risk and built a startup that was agile, resilient and customer-centric. You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. The rest is just fluff.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. Leadership thinks it’s spending tons of money; practitioners feel like they have no resources. Good optimizers generate ideas that are customer-centric. You can’t see it.)

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