Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

No internet, no blogs, no books on startups, no entrepreneurship departments in universities, etc. Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How To Land a Job at Google (or elsewhere) - FairSoftware's Blog , November 9, 2010 It’s been 11 years now that the obvious hit me: the best way to land a job is to do the job , not talk about it. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. Give yourself a month.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. While I authored this blog post, this classes is a team project.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. It’s time to ask why startup board governance has failed to keep pace with innovation. The process they use to guide their search is customer development. Weekly blog of the customer development narrative.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2020

If customers aren’t receptive to email messages, try engaging them on a new platform, like social media, or SMS. It taps into the idea of conversational marketing, which has proven to be high-converting. Conversely, for less distinct target segments, you can still personalize landing pages. Or how to market your podcast?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

He had read my blog posts about the NSF Innovation Corps and was interested in how the first class went. He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. If you can’t see the video above click here.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. While I authored this blog post, this classes is a team project. Hacking for Oceans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Use some customer development to find out. But its also amazing for testing big hypotheses, like what our customers really want to get out of our product.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. Our model at Casual Corp.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This event is free, and their conversation will be followed by a live Q&A for webcast attendees; register today to join them. government fund and as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the National Science Foundation. Those conversations can often circle around the difficulties of entrepreneurship outside Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

On to what seems to have stuck: kwooleyy : #g2s Showed startup OODA loop developed by USAF pilot John Boyd I included two Boyd-inspired books in the recommended reading list on the right-hand side of this blog: Certain to Wi n and Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Federal government should do nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. We knew IMVU would be a socializing platform, and so we decided that we would let our customers interact using their own rules for assigning status, like we do in the physical world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In the middle of a serious conversation on the joys of motherhood or the stress of a career you might realize that the person you’re talking to is only 15. But to your point, you can't even have a conversation with them, they have made their decisions and moved on. But it also has some drawbacks.

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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. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. What’s the best way to commercialize a blog?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Groupon's MVP was a WordPress blog and a spreadsheet. Minimum means *minimum*.

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