Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Reply shiftMode » Blog Archive » Nobody Cares About Your Product , on August 31, 2009 at 2:30 pm Said: [.]

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Our blog content is a staple of the NextView brand identity. Over the past ten years, the partners have published some truly incredible pieces, and my goal was to create a blog page that did this content justice. Check it out! .

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. I’m at jordan.cooper@gmail.com or blogging here: jordancooper.wordpress.com Reply Alain Raynaud , on November 12, 2009 at 4:42 pm Said: Or maybe it’s just the last slide that convinced the VCs. The rest is just fluff.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. on Cafepress, but is now literally priceless since the copyright owner put it on his blog.) Absolutely priceless.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Regular readers of this blog will know the specific methodology I recommend, called Five Whys. It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. The relevant part starts about 4:30 into the video (wait for it to download.) luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

In the last three posts, we drew the relationship of market risk and invention risk with vertical markets and pointed out verticals where customer development would be useful. would look in each of the verticals. Waterfall, Agile, Lean? For example, How does sales differ from one market to another? Liquidity – How?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Reply SV New Tech Meetup « startupSQUARE's blog , on December 2, 2009 at 12:42 am Said: [.] Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] bands take their built in audience and then branch into their own material. Then WHAT it IS?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Your blog is on my must read list in Google Reader, and it’s always a great read. I just started a blog here: [link]. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. 20 Awesome Blog Designs For Inspiration – [link]. 33 Creative Uses of Vertical Scrolling in Web Design – [link]. I wish I could play ping pong as well as they play.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2009

Simulation to Reduce Invention Risk If you’re in a vertical where “invention risk” is dominant, then you want to do everything you can to manage and reduce those risks. When I wrote the Four Steps to the Epiphany , the Customer Development text, I hadn’t yet thought about what vertical markets it might be appropriate for.)

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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. I was an idiot.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply One difference between VCs and Entrepreneurs « Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog , on April 20, 2009 at 7:06 am Said: [.] Reply Reversible vs. Irreversible Decisions at Oregonstartups.com Blog , on April 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Great startups have a tempo of 10x a large [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. And how could they possibly review a blog? Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. Is that a lot? What is the right revenue model?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Below we copy from Steve Blank’s blog. Blank asks a lot of the right questions in his blog post: Am I a Founder? Blog at WordPress.com. takes to be a founder or co-founder of a company, or even an early participant. When my students ask me about whether they should be a founder or cofounder of a startup I ask [.]

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reply A victim’s account of a hostile outburst by his abusive boss « eBossWatch Blog , on October 15, 2009 at 1:23 pm Said: [.] 15, 2009 Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank blogged about being on the receiving end of a hostile outburst from his “abusive boss,&# the [.] of huge losses made by Nokia.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Your blog post has provided a lot of useful insights for me which I’ve been implementing. Blog at WordPress.com. I have been working on getting a startup to revenue for a while, and while this is my 4th iteration and I have not yet succeeded, I’ve been learning new things every time. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

EE Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:30 am Said: [.] This is the pivot, a crucial tactical maneuver for the lean startup [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Reply Ashu Sharma , on April 27, 2010 at 11:44 pm Said: Steve, Great post!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. Blog at WordPress.com. Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner. Just a reflection on my family and hopes for our children. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

PS1- I run a small software startup in Brazil and just found out about Customer Development and your blog (I’ve been reading and listening to everything I can get my hands on online, like Venturehacks and Ries’ blog). Reply Daily Review #21 | The Queue Blog , on November 9, 2009 at 8:06 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

a bit more panache and patience, they’re likely to break less furniture as they leave,&# blogs Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and author of “The Four Steps to the [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Reply Nathan Furr , on September 24, 2009 at 9:20 am Said: Great post and wise advice. on July 9, 2010 at 12:50 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web. The first question to ask is: “Does your startup have market risk or is it dominated by technical risk?” Lean Startup /Customer Development is used to find answers to the unknowns about customers and markets. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 20, 2009

Darcy Murphy , on March 21, 2009 at 9:46 pm Said: I’m really impressed with your stories – in fact, that’s what I like about this blog the most, you’re writing stories. I’ve never said this before on a blog, but I can’t wait for your next post. i have your book, but stopped at the 4th chapter.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here’s the problem: Every other poor schmuck in every other vertical has used the Exact. Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog. Considering that nearly 2 million Americans fall victim to online scams a year, and many scam sites lean heavily on low priced stock photography… the odds are not in your favor.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Reply Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action « Steve Blank , on November 9, 2009 at 6:02 am Said: [.] to move their applications to our unique machine architecture.

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Great blog setup by the way, enjoying the narrative/play by play including ignoring your nagging (rational) fears. Reply Richard Burns , on August 6, 2009 at 5:58 pm Said: Li Kramer gave me the link to your blog. As I work with a startup, this blog is very helpful. Blog at WordPress.com. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Stay hungry, stay lean. I don’t want to be hungry and lean (nor do I want to be full and fat). It was an odd feeling at that time, we thought we have made it and fail to stay lean and hungry. When my startup starts growing, I’ll make this blog post a mandatory reading for everyone in the company.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Reply DodaPedia » Blog Archive » How to decide where to live , on June 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Said: [.] Blog at WordPress.com. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance I always had been curious about how Silicon Valley, a place I had lived and worked in, came to be. I’ll stop channeling James Burke now. to do that.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 12, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Reply Hmm , on October 12, 2009 at 3:50 pm Said: This is incredible and EXACTLY what I’ve been doing. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2015

A key aspect of Lean Management is to work effectively with limited resources and small teams. The recommendations the Task Force produces will be stronger if they are drawn from a variety of outlooks and will tend to be less biased if individuals from different verticals contribute. Lean Business: Pivot Point.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

Unfortunately most startups learn this by going through the “Fire the first Sales VP&# drill: You start your company with a list of potential customers reading like a “who’s who&# of whatever vertical market you’re in (or the Fortune 1000 list.) Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

I forget that other people actually read this blog. I think that one of the good themes of this blog is that years != “dog years&# in deep industries. To Steve B: thanks for a great blog, and connecting so many outlying or just plain uncorrelated dots. Blog at WordPress.com. Say that gives 15 years in business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

Take your reputation online, utilizing social media, your website, and a blog to connect to clients and make strategic alliances. Keep you office running lean and mean. Instead of selling your services to everyone, expand your services “vertically” by targeting industries where you’ve already been successful.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Reply SVJ , on June 30, 2009 at 3:21 am Said: Hi Steve: I have become a recent regular reader of your blog. No internet, no blogs, no books [.] Blog at WordPress.com. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Thoroughly enjoy each one of your posts. This one particularly resonates with me.

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