Community Customer Development Silicon Valley Technical Review 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. But customers didn’t agree. ————-.
Steve Blank
JUNE 8, 2021
This class is built on conducting in-person of interviews with customers/ beneficiaries and stakeholders, but due to the pandemic, teams now had to do all their customer discovery via a computer screen. How would customer interviews work via video? This would seem to be a fatal stake through the heart of the class.
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ConversionXL
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. There is a wealth of resources that are unique to this town and a vibrant community of hackers, product designers, business people, and investors at various stages in their career. The Grand-daddy.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 13, 2009
It took me 8 startups and 21 years to get it right, (and one can argue success was due to the Internet bubble rather then any brilliance.) I’m convinced that starting a company without talking to customers is like throwing your time and money in the street (unless you’re already a domain expert). I was an idiot.
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. Student Feedback.
Steve Blank
MAY 30, 2016
Four decades ago my first job in Silicon Valley was with ESL, the first company to combine computers and signals intelligence. The founder of this 1964 Silicon Valley startup was Bill Perry. In these last three weeks the benefit of having a team of mixed business and technical resources becomes apparent.
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