Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Or variations thereof. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. For now, Id like to ask a favor. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2014

Fueled by data driven research that map out the who behind the buying decisions of your products or services, customer personas can help inform everything from more effective copy to product development. Their purpose is to put the people behind company decision making in the shoes of the customer.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The data you need to know depends on the product and whether you have a B2B or B2C business. “ There are no facts inside your building, so get outside ,” is one of the mantras of Steve Blank , the father of customer development and author of The Startup Owner’s Manual. Talk to people. generational).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. which defeats the whole purpose of getting face time for Customer Development!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice. It would be nice if you could deconstruct why the customer development model is challenging to pull off in practice?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Great for visualizing work of product development.

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