Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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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. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

In other words, if you can talk about the steps you took (even in general terms) and how you applied Lean methodologies, i think that would be of great value to audiences. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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