Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
I’ve seen the Valley grow from Sunnyvale to Santa Clara to today where it stretches from San Jose to South of Market in San Francisco. The response was inevitably “great pipeline.” (Great pipeline means no real sales.). Finally the board would fire the VP of sales. We now understand that’s wrong.
Steve Blank
APRIL 21, 2011
All the teams were showing us what agile looked like, but this week several would remind us what focused and relentless really meant. This week they were testing their hypotheses about the sales “Channel” – how a company delivers its value proposition (i.e. Week 6 of the class. its product or service) to its customers.
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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 28, 2009
This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. As the experiments progressed, day-in-day-out we werent making sales. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Mark Leslie has articulated a very similar methodology to "4 steps to the epiphany" in his "sales learning curve" model which I also find compelling.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 28, 2010
To acquire new money managers, the company makes traditional sales calls, which means they’ve interviewed many, many professionals and gotten a strong sense of their needs. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. .&# says Rachleff. says Rachleff. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in. Go on an agile diet quickly. They are closing orders.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 9, 2009
Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.
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