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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

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs first map their assumptions and then test these hypotheses with customers out in the field (customer development) and use an iterative and incremental development methodology (agile development) to build the product. I’m glad to have been part of the team inventing the Lean Startup methodology.

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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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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a great example of lean startup thinking. 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? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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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? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. How to build companies that matter (the lean start.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

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Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. This is lean development without any customer development.

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