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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Setting Up Your First Website

Up and Running

These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills). Custom development. This means hiring/contracting a freelance web developer or an agency to design and develop your site from start to finish.

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How to Stop Playing “Target Market Roulette”: A new addition to the Lean toolset

Steve Blank

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

Startup Lessons Learned

It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic. It usually looks like this: the can-do attitude and high-bandwidth communication that characterized the first few iterations have produced magic.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen.

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Job Titles That Can Sink Your Startup

Steve Blank

I’ve been running our company, cycling through Customer Discovery and Validation and the board suggested that I was running out of bandwidth and needed some help in closing our initial orders. The early hire he needed to help him run Customer Validation and Pivots has a very different skill set and job spec.

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How to Convince Investors You’re the Future not the Past

Steve Blank

Then follow up the Petal Diagram with another slide that says, here’s our unique insight that’s been validated by customer discovery. If you’re talking to the right investors, this approach can generate a high-bandwidth conversation because you’ve given them an opportunity to critique your analysis of failure, risk, insight and opportunity.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Dear E, so good to come across this. I had wondered about your whereabouts :-).