Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Street Smart Product Manager

JUNE 2, 2015

A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Modev MVP Conference and the Lean+Agile DC Conference about using a bootstrapped Customer Development approach to pursuing a new product idea in an existing company. The post Create Your Business Case Using Customer Development appeared first on Street Smart Product Manager.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 27, 2014

” — Lauren Friese | Founder, TalentEgg DEVOTE RESOURCES TOWARD CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT “Bootstrapping is the act of scaling a product based on its merit. This has been, and continues to be, our main strategy.”

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

. — Having now done several startups, Matt has learned to keep his eye on a singular aim: The goal is to get customers, not to raise money: There are a lot of people that are just chasing dollars, trying to get a VC to fund them, and they’ll give up 40 percent of their company in the first round just to get some major amount of money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. I recently had an email Q&A with a fellow PMer in which I shared what’s worked for me. The post RIP PRDs.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

. — Having now done several startups, Matt has learned to keep his eye on a singular aim: The goal is to get customers, not to raise money: There are a lot of people that are just chasing dollars, trying to get a VC to fund them, and they’ll give up 40 percent of their company in the first round just to get some major amount of money.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. However they got early signs that they might be on to something: Most people thought we were very wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. For now, Id like to ask a favor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Lane and his team built a virtual world to give their kids a safe place to socialize online, thinking others might like it, too. We took out lines of credit on our homes; we maxed out credit cards. There were no investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

As a bootstrap company without investors we always have to use cash flow as our development and maintenance funds. We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Lane and his team built a virtual world to give their kids a safe place to socialize online, thinking others might like it, too. We took out lines of credit on our homes; we maxed out credit cards. There were no investors.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Many of my free product help calls are about ways to pursue customer development and gather VOC, bootstrap new product efforts, and apply lean principles to product management activities. I recently had an email Q&A with a fellow PMer in which I shared what’s worked for me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Cliff Dailey This is a great post. Thanks again.

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The Startup Toolkit

DECEMBER 28, 2012

How many days have I squandered trying to optimize strategy and customer development when I could have cut the project in half with better tech choices!? Bootstrap (basic style). It didn’t have to be big. This was a one day project[1]. Now my head is spinning: what else have I been missing? Amazon S3 (hosting).

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

Learning in advance that you don’t need to build a feature is one of the highest-impact (and most common) results of good customer development. It’s why talking to customers is able to speed you up, even though it feels like it’s slowing you down at the time (“But we could be coooooodiiiiiiiing!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. I continue to work on additional programs and products for bootstrapped and angel-backed startups, as well as for enterprise and future entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. And standing out to a company that got $10 million dollars in funding even before they started Asana is going to be very hard if you bootstrap it with your savings. Jason: That’s called bootstrapping, right. Jason: Exactly.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

in developing these new models. We believe that using the customer development process to monetize these assets through new business models can create huge competitive advantage and more speed to market for us and other big companies. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Customer Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2013

and we are NOT looking for talks about how to bootstrap or run a business on the cheap. * We are seeking talks aimed at all segments of our audience: corporate entrepreneurs; educators; government innovators; non-profit and social impact leaders; and developers. Instead , tell us what you’ve learned.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

How to Build a Startup (EP245) by Steve Blank: You’ll learn the key steps of the Customer Development process. How to identify and engage the first customers for your product, and how to gather, evaluate and use their feedback to make your product, marketing and business model far stronger.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

You could bootstrap your startup and do most of the tough legwork on your own, perhaps while you hold down another job. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it. Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Domain Names and Trademark Law.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to. . Filed under: Customer Development. Every networking event I would go to, the first, second or third question anybody would ask me is, “What round are you on?

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

You can bootstrap your way into existence. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. The impact of accelerator programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, Seedcamp, and dozens more are one factor. believe that is certainly true.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

All teams raised their hands and screamed: we hundreds of angels and dozens of VCs, all of them say they will only fund deals with prototypes, beta customers, first revenue and executive teams all in place, and they say it will be 2 years from now because their coffers are out of cash and LPs in default. Bootstrap for years!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As soon as I would say, “We’re bootstrapped,” I would see their eyes go over my shoulder and look for someone more valuable to talk to. . Filed under: Customer Development. Every networking event I would go to, the first, second or third question anybody would ask me is, “What round are you on?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. The other is, ‘Don’t forget about bootstrapping.’ Especially if you don’t normally listen to podcasts?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2013

No matter what industry you’re in, and no mater what good or service your small business provides, these twelve tactics will help with the task of bootstrapping your company. If you take care of your customers, they will take care of you. This is the damage ‘Clients Last’ can wreak.

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