Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. We had validated our new assumptions by a set of orders, and we had pivoted on our business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Business schools teach aspiring executives a variety of courses around the execution of known business models, (accounting, organizational behavior, managerial skills, marketing, operations, etc.). In contrast, startups search for a business model. (Or Their objective is to get users, orders, customers, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

The best entrepreneurship textbooks and blogs assume that advice to startups is generalizable. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Reply Bowling Balls , on June 21, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. Just get out of the building.”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. No funding and you are trying to get exposure, you have exhausted Twitter, Facebook and a blog. I would go back to the blog – it’s the #1 ROI if done right. What’s the best way to commercialize a blog? Why do I do it? I may iterate 3 times in one day.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

BLOG About Contact Subscribe to Feed end #menug -->. While it’s flattering that someone might think I’m capable of immediately grasping all the complexities of the business instantly, it’s a bit unrealistic. If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway.

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