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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

At this point in my career I didn’t understand that the goal of getting outside the building was not only finding markets with potential customers to sell to but also confirming the company’s vision, business model and product/market fit. I had done a good job of Customer Discovery but failed at Customer Validation.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Updated Business tools for Startups. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. pgbouncer (Lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, from the developers of Skype). Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). broken vc model.