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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Lean Goes Better with Coke – the Future of Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

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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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. Also, make a bullet list of the marketing activities that will drive customers to your door. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. On the one hand, bootstrapping your business gives you much more control over it.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. Edwin: I do get a lot of searches for that, by the way. 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: Exactly.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

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.