Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. In many cases, they did the impossible, building a new product faster, cheaper, and better than anyone could have predicted. Everyone was in the flow; the team was hyper-productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It would be a lot more efficient to send down a compressed packet with the entire sites data and presentation in an optimized format.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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