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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

So what’s wrong the product development model? The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.)

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

He just hired Meg Whitman. NewTV will depend on partners like telcos to distribute the content. Given Verizon just shut down Go90 , its short form content video service, it will be interesting to see if Verizon distributes Katzenberg’s offerings.). the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Who can I hire later? Or if you’re building consumer electronics the key activities might be: low cost hardware design, high volume manufacturing, user interface design, consumer branding and retail distribution. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer Development' And what can I outsource?”

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Announcing our investment in Filebase, the API-layer to access decentralized storage 

Version One Ventures

Decentralized storage networks are among the most distributed and secure networks in the world, but they can also require custom development and complex integration. P.S.: Filebase is hiring ! It’s not simple. We’re excited to partner with them to make Filebase’s mission a reality!

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How to Be Smarter than Your Investors – Continuous Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

Local crop dusters meant they could hire existing planes and simply attach their Hyper-spectral camera to any crop dusting plane. All of sudden what was an additional engineering and development effort now became a small, variable cost. Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Technology. This is a big idea.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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