Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. Failure in startups seems to now be embedded in startup communities like NY and LA. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development?

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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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Taking Care of Your Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Brian Clark and I have been friends for a really long time and they have certainly set the standard on how to build a business, how to build a brand, how to take care of a community. Transcript of The Key to Success? Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

At their most effective, they’re doing the opposite: They’re allowing customers to re-create the experience of shopping and buying in their local communities. Build strong customer communities. Consider Harley-Davidson’s success in creating a sense of community around its bikes.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development. The Adventure Begins.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2018

These don’t require coding skills—they’re usually visual templates that are easy to use but don’t allow for great customization (that would require technical skills). Custom development. This means hiring/contracting a freelance web developer or an agency to design and develop your site from start to finish.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

My friends Phil Weiser and Brad Bernthal at Silicon Flatirons (who are a big part of the book Startup Communities ) are hosting me in Boulder on Monday for a “Crash Course: Startup Communities – Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.”) Startup Communities – Building Regional Clusters.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2012

I offer the following suggestions: Build your own customer communities. Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff recognized early on that Facebook is how people, including his customers and prospects, want to communicate online. So his team developed a ‘Facebook-like’ platform called Chatter. Restore community marketing.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. Requires ongoing management to keep community members engaged. . The popularity of the model can be judged by the fact that the U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 19, 2022

This is the fifth edition of this semi-annual gathering, a supportive peer community of educators, and we’ll meet to discuss how we adapt to meet the challenges of the current tumultuous environment. We look forward to gathering as a community to continue shaping the future of Lean Innovation Education.

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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. What’s Different. Entrepreneurs in Bend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

If you’re looking to dive deep on Lean Startup skills, our workshop sessions provide professional development at a serious bargain. They’re led by established experts in the community, and the rooms we’re holding these in are limited, so you’ll get a chance to ask your questions and share your experience.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Short, well-told customer story videos proved most powerful, exponentially increasing engagement and lead generation for Intel. Community marketing is the best way to leverage Rock Star customers. Even if you’re a global firm, it’s a good idea to restore community marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. But I believe that it creates an authentic relationship with your community. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

Customer Development/Lean Startups In hindsight startups and the venture capital community left out the most important first step any startup ought to be doing – hypothesis testing in front of customers- from day one. It’s what my textbook on Customer Development describes. I was an idiot.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Rather, they did these things because a) SAS software really was doing a terrific job, and b) getting the word out to their peers helped the customer champions build social capital. The key is to figure out a way to foster a dialogue between customers and their peers that touches on issues related to your products. Close the sale.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

So no post today on entrepreneurship, Secret History of Silicon Valley, Customer Development, Lean Startups, etc. We try our best to give back to our community and country and always wonder – is it enough? Our friends who run the state park surrounding our ranch will join all of us for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. customer development. Some general customer development slides click here. Free: Startup Tools. The class teaches the three basic skills all entrepreneurs need to know: business model design.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Steve : You mean in the community you’re in where the founder is an outlier, rather than at the core where you go to New York or you to go Silicon Valley and everybody’s a founder, including the waiters? Will : … I want to focus on impacting my community and region as much as I possibly can. Will : Absolutely.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Remember, building a team is not just about filling roles; it’s about creating a community. Encourage open communication, recognise achievements, and provide opportunities for professional growth. It’s not just about a logo or a tagline; it’s the experience you promise your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

First up in our speaker spotlight series is an edited transcript of our Q&A with Rocio Perez-Ochoa , co-founder of Bidhaa Sasa , a non-profit working to distribute beneficial goods to rural communities in Kenya. The customer development theory was an eye opener and gave us the final push to launch this venture.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. This is a customer development problem. So What is Customer Development? The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses. Website Analysis.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In fact, you could say that all that remains from my last book are the four steps of Customer Development. Integrates Alexander Osterwalders “Business Model Canvas” as the front-end and “scorecard” for the customer discovery process. Briefly, the new book. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

And with advances in technology and social media — along with the current boom in personal and professional communities — those who adopt customer reference programs must think much more broadly about the forms advocacy can take.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited. This is all a part of the normal product and customer development process,” the CEO tells the team. Three months in, the burn is now at $70k/month.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

This is a 3-day program for entrepreneurship faculty from around the world how to teach entrepreneurship via the Lean LaunchPad approach ( business model canvas + customer development ) and bring their entrepreneurship curriculums into the 21st century. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Customer Segments Change to Beneficiaries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. And in the end the measure of a life is not time.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

Those who don’t make it into the class are offered a variety of on- and off-line tools, including government-funded translations of Steve’s nine-part Udacity.com Customer Development lectures , excerpts from the Startup Owner’s Manual in Spanish, and they’ve translated a long list of Code Academy courses and other tools as well.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Derek Andersen , is the founder of Startup Grind , a 200,000-person entrepreneurial community with chapters in 75 countries run by more than 1,000 volunteers. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Derek Andersen. Tune in today at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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