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. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. Back then it seemed foreign.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Brilliant ad agencies and clever marketing communications experts. Talented product developers. Customer content and engagement built rapid growth in the success of Intel ’s social media and Web-based marketing efforts, increasing “customer contacts” by a factor of tenfold and overall page views by 100x.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. Customer Development.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. These may include references, referrals, testimonials, serving on advisory boards, and participating in your customer communities, he explains.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The investors, founders, and “community” are all super excited about ASC. ASC starts building product, but as they get into the thick of it, the team realizes executing on their vision is going to be extremely hard. Early customer development talks are going great which keeps the team really excited.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They assume that each person on the team is genuinely interested in testing their work and ideas against the reality of what customers want. Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

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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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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

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SVPG

MARCH 17, 2011

Business and Financial Knowledge (7) - Does the product owner understand the economics and financial dynamics of his product? Process Skills: Customer Discovery Process (7) - Customer discovery includes customer interviewing skills, opportunity assessments and understanding of customer development programs.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2017

They are also a key to success in the Membership Economy — an emerging model in which businesses create a customer-centric strategy using tactics like subscription pricing, inclusiveness, and digital community. Or better yet, are they achieving a reputation within the community as an expert, or perhaps as a generous soul?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement. It's a big tent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. There are and we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In hindsight it appeared clear that startups that survive the first few tough years do not follow the traditional product-centric launch model espoused by product managers or the venture capital community. Through trial and error, hiring and firing, successful startups all invented a parallel process to product development.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Become a Key Member of the Tech Community The Hope: You’ll form friendships with potential technical co-founders and work on small projects together. You have good community building skills and quickly become other people’s friends. There’s no guarantee your future technical co-founder will be there.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Labels: hiring , lean startup 4comments: Tamar said. This post has been removed by the author. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? You can find the origins of many successful companies in these early lessons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Is that a lot?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. It worked incredibly well for us. Your mileage may vary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2015

They suspected that if they could do customer development throughout the development process, they could come up with a much better product. They didn’t yet understand how these learnings could be applied to the mainstream product development process. This is a big concern for us,” said REDACTED.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

We were building a community, open to anyone who shared its values, and that mission inspired volunteers and staff to try and reach out to as many people as possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

These decisions cause problems that will challenge you for years, if you are lucky enough to be successful with your product. As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. What makes a particular decision key?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? So far, all the feedback has been in favor of doing it whenever I have a guest post elsewhere. If you have further thoughts, please leave them as a comment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said. Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. Thanks for all that you have done to help the startup community! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I love the business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Summit wrap-up International tour about to begin The cardinal sin of community management Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) What would you want to tell Washington DC about st.

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