Agile Product Development Startup Venture Capital 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
Some of the best and brightest wanted to work for defense contractors or corporate research and development labs. And the best startups spun out of Stanford were building components for weapon systems. Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War.
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. And it may work.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.
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.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
You think startups are hard? Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others?
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 11, 2012
These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Six Myths of Product Development – [link]. The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth – [link].
The Startup Magazine
DECEMBER 4, 2018
The world of startups is ever-changing and evolving. It’s a world that is characterized by the ability of a startup to be agile and relevant to keep up with market shifts in a crowded media environment. We’re going to delve into that using two startups that had a very successful 2018. What makes it special?
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