Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Burnout can turn productive employees into emotional zombies and destroy careers. Reply The Chad , on July 23, 2009 at 2:45 pm Said: As a young professional looking towards the future and trying to cut my own path, I love hearing about how others built up a stable work-life. The Chad poses a very good point.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

This also literally can’t catch every problem, because your test sandboxes or test clusters will never be exactly like the production system. But I will tell you not to have too little or too much, because those definitely ruin the food or product. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2009

scaled up the production of U-235 and plutonium from micrograms to tens of kilograms by 1945. There was something about the energy and passion Zilog’s customers had as they kept doing the most unexpected things with our products. Reply Chad Albrecht , on July 23, 2009 at 11:23 am Said: Great post!

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2009

But reading their literature allowed me to discuss the problems and opportunities with customers.) My Velvet Painting Period You Know You’re Getting Close to Your Customers When They Offer You a Job I believed that good marketers used their own products. You can’t understand customers from inside your building.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is interesting to see the emphasis that both Twitter and Quora have put on product design, not just engineering. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). I often find that the designer/developer has enough initial product vision to be the near term visionary.

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