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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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These are things that if you get right, you can optimize your way into a big, sustainable audience. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

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The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

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for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review)

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Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

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What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.