Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

New strategic direction in companies with loyal customers have different consequences then when you had no customers Acquiring new customers are a lot more expensive that converting existing ones. I wonder if the greater challenge for many CEOs is recognizing that customers need to be fired at all. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Ardent 3: Supercomputer Porn « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/12/ardent-3-supercomputer-porn – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. Nobody I know uses plain hashing for that reason.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. sadly, this blog forces you to use a google account. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. I am not a developer. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. Hello Eric Ries , Thanks for the great blog. Nice blog. Im curious.

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