Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.
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Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Steve : You mean in the community you’re in where the founder is an outlier, rather than at the core where you go to New York or you to go Silicon Valley and everybody’s a founder, including the waiters? Will : … I want to focus on impacting my community and region as much as I possibly can. Will : Absolutely.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 23, 2016
As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Customer Segments Change to Beneficiaries.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.
andrewchenblog.com
MARCH 10, 2010
Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Portals that want to unify news, communication, tools, etc. what a coincidence. See [link].
Steve Blank
JUNE 5, 2018
federal science agencies and in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Some examples of innovation tools are Customer Development, Design Thinking, User-Centric Design, Business Model Canvas, Storytelling, etc. But it is only recently that we realized why some programs succeed and others are failing.
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