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Unrequited Love

Steve Blank

The VC’s suggested I should spend a day at Onyx Software, an early pioneer in Sales Automation in Seattle. With an unexpected job offer in-hand I spent the plane flight home concluding that our family had already planted roots too deep to move to Seattle. I Know A Great Customer. But I didn’t realize that at the time.

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Lean Startup Machine Boulder

Feld Thoughts

What I saw yesterday is further evidence of this – 13 teams spent from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon using the Lean Startup Methodology, the concept of customer development, and the lean startup canvas to go from idea through a series of validated learnings to get to a better idea.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze. Founder, House of Mikko. Co-founder and CTO, Sharethrough. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. Co-founder and CTO, Saygent. Founder, BlueSpark.