YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2019
by Bruce Cleveland, Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners and author of “ Traversing the Traction Gap “. At this stage, the team is seeking market and customer validation metrics. The MVP is the most pared-down version of a product that customers are willing to purchase or use. Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2010
Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.
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Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. They need to learn to find answers to questions like: who are my customers, what product features match customer needs, how do I create demand and what metrics matter? On Fire With A Vision.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Fixing the Missing Pieces of Infrastructure.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 17, 2010
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.
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