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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Not only is the Chinese ecosystem completely different but also the consumer demographics and user expectations are equally unique. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

Not only is the Chinese ecosystem completely different but also the consumer demographics and user expectations are equally unique. 70% of Chinese Internet users are under 30. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages. New Rules for China. Unlike U.S.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 3: Value Proposition Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. They did an online survey of 200 existing users (~5% response rate). This post is part three.

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Startup Tools

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Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. Simple editing.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Once you have a first version of your app running, you can use the tools on this site to get it into the hands of users and to get paid.” Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t SurveyMonkey (user surveys).

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

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. In contrast to simply executing your business plan, the Customer Development process is built on low-cost and continuous learning and iterating.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

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Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.