Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 15, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Jeremy and Michael by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Before founding 2U, Jeremy developed Zinch, intended to be a virtual guidance counselor to help low-income students navigate the college application process. Michael Eidsaune.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Evangelos and Ashok by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Evangelos and Ashok by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Ashok Srivastava.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Download the full Startup Genome report here. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital. I think these guys have gone a long way to turn hypotheses about early-stage Internet startups into facts. And they’re just getting started. Congratulations. ——-.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here (And download any of the past shows here.). The) first thing was I wanted to be a land developer because I wanted to be my own builder. What did I know about land development? And download any of the past shows here.). Derek Andersen.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Carmen and Don by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interviews are below.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Reetu and Mandela by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Mandela Schumacher-Hodge.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

—— all five China blog posts available as a download here. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital' They are the signs of a leadership frightened not by external enemies but by their own people.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

An app can not only offer an easy platform for people to make mobile purchases, but it can also ensure that customers are constantly reminded of your business every time they open their phone (which could lead to an increase in return customers). .

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Agile software development. Customer development. For those interested in getting started with agile or customer development, I thought Id include a few links. For customer development, start with Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany or take a look at his recent Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture.

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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. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Dakin and Ajeet by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Dakin and Ajeet by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Ajeet Singh.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Dakin and Ajeet by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Dakin and Ajeet by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Ajeet Singh.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

For the last 75 years products (both durable goods and software) were built via Waterfall development. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. The Old Days – Waterfall Product Development.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Chris and Andy by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Andy continued to work with Steve for several years and has developed marketing, branding and communication strategies for game-changing technologies and companies ever since.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talented product developers. If you can harness the knowledge, natural enthusiasm, and peer influence of your very best customers — I call them “Rock Star” customers — they’ll market, sell, and help develop breakthrough products for your firm better than your internal resources can do, and often at a fraction of the cost.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

And other startups are in a New Market — creating a market from scratch (like Apple with the iPhone, or iPod/iTunes.) (“Market Type&# radically changes how you sell and market at each step in Customer Development. It’s one of the subtle distinctions that at times gets lost in the process.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Your operating system ensures security of updates by checking downloaded update packages against the signing key.) Filed under: Customer Development , Secret History of Silicon Valley. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley' ” (Ironic but possible.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Sunny and Curt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Sunny’s startup idea emerged from a diagnostic tool he’d developed in his lab to detect pathogens. And download any of the past shows here.). Curt Haselton.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 23, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Stan and Matt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Stan Gloss co-founded BioTeam following his tenure in business development with AVAKI Corporation, a pioneer in global grid software solutions. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The goal is to have split-testing be a continuous part of our development process, so much so that it is considered a completely routine part of developing a new feature. The report is set up to show you what happened to customers who registered in that period (a so-called cohort analysis ). This is not what I have in mind.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Jim and Peter by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . And download any of the past shows here.). Peter Arvai.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Scalable systems are no exception - if your assumptions about how many customers youll have, or how they will behave are just a little bit wrong, you can wind up with a massive amount of wasted code.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2011

Second, to share how my how my thinking about entrepreneurship as a distinct practice and how Customer Development as one of its central components has evolved over the last decade. And with the 30-year statute of limitations now passed, stories about who I worked for (and the names of agencies.). Now Hear This.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 16, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with David and Omar by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). We developed a simple algorithm for pricing the textbooks, predicting when a price would fluctuate, when a book would go out of print, that kind of thing. Omar Zenhom. I had a concept.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Javier and Hillary by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). government is the biggest spender and the biggest investor in research and development in the world. And some of it could be in development. Hillary Hartley.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Michael and Graeme by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). SneakGuard was developed after Graeme’s 4-year-old daughter managed to open a prescription medicine child safety cap. And download any of the past shows here.). Graeme Gordon.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Listen to the full interview by downloading it from SoundCloud here. And download any of the past shows here.). That helped us develop a product. . We found customers who said, “Yeah, this is a real problem,” developed a product, they said, “Yeah, we dig it.” What was the value proposition?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Wow the file is a gig and is going to take 7 hours to download! Could someone reupload to one of the video sites mobileme doesn't seem to be friendly for large files or non-US downloaders. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? July 6, 2009 8:43 PM Eric said.

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Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Guido and Doris by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Guido and Doris by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Doris Korda.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Magdalena and Michael by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). I was always curious to find out what the next developments were. Listen to my full interviews with Magdalena and Michael by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Nigel and Vaughn and with Kerry by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). You can download Uber for free, but as soon as you hail a cab, you’re paying. — Customer discovery paid off for Kerry. Vaughn Caldon. Kerry Frank.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Jessica and Peggy by downloading it from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Jessica and Peggy by downloading it from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Peggy Burke.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Sunny and Curt by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Sunny’s startup idea emerged from a diagnostic tool he’d developed in his lab to detect pathogens. And download any of the past shows here.). Curt Haselton.

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