Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. business models. New Rules for China.
Steve Blank
APRIL 14, 2013
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. business models. New Rules for China.
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Steve Blank
AUGUST 3, 2012
Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. ———-.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 31, 2014
China, Russia, Brazil, India, Indonesia all meet those criteria. The biggest mistake for most of these startups was not understanding that optimizing their business model for the 24 million people in the Australian market would not prepare them for the size and scale they needed to get to big. Outside the U.S. Trip 2 to the U.S.
Steve Blank
JUNE 12, 2020
This was followed by an 8-minute slide presentation describing their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2013
As soon as they had designed the product, they found a contract manufacturer to build the product in China. Alice and Bettina are hands-on mechanical and electrical engineers, so instead of assuming everything would go smoothly, they wisely got on a plane to Dongguan China and worked with the factory directly. They learned a ton.
Steve Blank
MARCH 14, 2012
You can watch as this team pivots through Customer Segments by clicking through their business model canvases at the end of presentation. The MiCasa customer discovery narrative blog is here. Interviewed 154 customers in China plus surveyed another 48. Relentless customer visits (10-20 a week).
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