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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Most Efficient Ways Of Successfully Promoting Your StartUp

The Startup Magazine

Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have a wide reach, and if you can use them effectively, you can significantly increase your customer base. Just keep in mind that when you are advertising on Facebook , you have to make sure that your ads are targeted to the right audience. Develop a Strong Online Presence.

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Creating Startup Success – Customer Development + Business Model Design

Steve Blank

In previous posts I’ve talked about what the combination of Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Methodologies mean to startups and intrapreneurs in large companies; it’s the beginning of entrepreneurship as a science with its own rules and methodologies. She posted her notes from the talk here.)

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

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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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. “Customer Development” to test the hypotheses outside the building and. Teams talk to 10-15 customers a week and make a minimum of 100 customer visits.

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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building. Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.)

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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

Big brands have the advantage of a strong reputation and a crew of professional designers behind their sites. If you want to compete with them, you’re going to have to develop a reputation and a strong web presence yourself. Custom development. But establishing a website isn’t easy. WordPress DIY.