Customer Development, Download and Hiring

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

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.). A college degree is great if you’re looking to get hired. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Michael Eidsaune.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

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.). Hire around you to fill those weak spots. …. 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.).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

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.). A college degree is great if you’re looking to get hired. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Michael Eidsaune.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Africa Sales Cycle

How To Market Your Independent Store During Covid-19

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

While you may be able to do some DIY marketing, it’s likely you’ll want to hire a marketing agency for tactics such as SEO. . Developing an app has become a lot cheaper in recent years and there are many easy ways to build an app yourself without any programming knowledge. Email marketing. PPC advertising.

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Marketing Social Media PPC SEO

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

The large players like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent historically would be more likely to simply copy a startup’s features than to hire their talent. —— all five China blog posts available as a download here. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. It usually doesn’t end well.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

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.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Agile Continuous Deployment

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere: Show No. 33: David Comisford and Omar Zenhom

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.). Steve : You mean that’s who your investors were telling you to hire? Go hire a sales exec to scale? And download any of the past shows here.). Omar Zenhom.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Ohio

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Nina and Brandon by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). We were hiring our first employee … we didn’t have a lot of (money in the bank), we only had one grant $350,000 at the moment. And download any of the past shows here.).

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Michigan Detroit

He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post. Market Type But most startups aren’t in existing markets. It’s one of the subtle distinctions that at times gets lost in the process.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley RSS California Customer Development

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Ryan and Lane by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). — Finding early customers for Qualtrics was difficult, Ryan says. Listen to my full interviews with Ryan and Lane by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth."

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip. Things started to slip.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki

Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2012

These are just a few of the powerful, growth-fostering impacts “Rock Star” customers are creating for a variety of companies. And engaging customers in such ways is generally much less expensive than hiring costly employees or agencies. But it does require some new thinking.

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Customer Fractional CTO Canada Technical Review

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). And download any of the past shows here.). Dave Kashen. Wayne : Yes.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley North Carolina Cofounder Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Ryan and Lane by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). — Finding early customers for Qualtrics was difficult, Ryan says. Listen to my full interviews with Ryan and Lane by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York

Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Expo (and a call for he.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21: Grant Warner

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Listen to the full interview by downloading it from SoundCloud here. And download any of the past shows here.). Do we hire 50 sales people? Listen to my full interview with Grant by downloading it from SoundCloud here. And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from his interview are below.

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Cofounder DC Entrepreneur Silicon Valley

Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

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.

Lean

Lean Video San Francisco Continuous Deployment

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 35: Jessica Mah and Peggy Burke

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.). — Jessica learned an important lesson about hiring: I thought, wow, it’d be great to work with friends, but it was horrible. And download any of the past shows here.).

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Customer Development

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 11: Pat Sullivan and Sebastian Jackson

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Here are some of the things his mentors taught him: Once I was agonizing over the fact that it took me a really, really long time to recognize that an executive … I hired just wasn’t making it. …

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Channel Programming Customer Development

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I usually use a "funnel report" that looks like this: Control Hypothesis A Hypothesis B Registered 1000 (100%) 1000 (100%) 500 (100%) Downloaded 650 (65%) 750 (75%) 200 (40%) Chatted 350 (35%) 350 (35%) 100 (20%) Purchased 100 (10%) 100 (10%) 25 (5%) In this case, you could run the report for any time period. Thanks for writing this article.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 18: Sarah Calhoun and Steve Sims

Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Listen to the full interviews by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). And people would hire me to put on these events with the idea that if I captured enough rich people, that would do it. And download any of the past shows here.). Steve Sims.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Monaco San Francisco Cofounder

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Web Advisory Board

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Ajay and Steven by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Ajay and Steven by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Steven Cohn.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

Listen to the full interviews with Ajay and Steven by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Ajay and Steven by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Steven Cohn.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Cofounder Seed Capital Texas

Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

San Francisco

San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Do you want them to download a demo, schedule a sales call, visit a physical store location or a website, download an app, click for more information, give you their email address, etc.? Founders ask me all the time whether they should hire a PR agency. Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing.

Marketing

Marketing Audience Technical Review PR

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I tried your compiler and it generted the XPI file but when I link to it and click the link it actually downloads the binary into my browser window instead of popping up the Firefox plugin window. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. This approach gives you an edge in hiring. Instead, engage with the project.

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Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? This device lets you control all your home entertainment devices without requiring you to "train" it from your existing remotes. They want to do activities.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And anytime you strike a deal for digital distribution of any content, insist that your creators be given real-time access to the big-picture metrics: not just downloads, but engagement, retention and replay. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. Im pretty sure the Top 25 lists are based on downloads, from what Ive seen. Any idea how Apple tracks download statistic? However, this is not the case. I am a little curious here.

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM

Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

A downloaded movie is a virtual good; theres really no pure functional value (other than lights and sounds). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Jacqueline and Christina by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Jacqueline and Christina by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here (And download any of the past shows here.).

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Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Campaign

Lessons Learned: Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Or, perhaps charging doesn't make sense, and offering the PDF as a free download would provide richer learning/discovery. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I hope this gives readers some ideas they can apply to their own situation. Happy holidays to you all!

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Audio

Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

Lean

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC

Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

We started making changes to the product: making it easier to pay, then making it more obvious that you should pay, then making it easier to download, get started, and so on. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo (and a call for he.

San Francisco

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Jacqueline and Christina by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Listen to my full interviews with Jacqueline and Christina by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here (And download any of the past shows here.).

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Campaign

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I downloaded and tried all four of them (because I had time to kill) - and Im still not sure which one was the best. Nevertheless, we are getting healthy downloads, and anecdotal evidence suggests that its often from people just browsing through apps. Do most people know what kind of app they want?

Distribution

Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. A startup’s first hires: What to look for | Fortune - [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link]. ” - [link]. 33 Best Free Fonts - [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 39: Jeremy Johnson and Michael Eidsaune

How To Market Your Independent Store During Covid-19

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere: Show No. 33: David Comisford and Omar Zenhom

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton

He's Only in Field Service

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Are You Putting Your Rock Star Customers To Work?

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 38: Ryan Smith and Lane Merrifield

Continuous deployment with downloads

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 21: Grant Warner

Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 35: Jessica Mah and Peggy Burke

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 11: Pat Sullivan and Sebastian Jackson

Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 18: Sarah Calhoun and Steve Sims

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 29: Ajay Kshatriya and Steven Cohn

Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Marketing Communications

Lessons Learned: Greasemonkey compiler

The free software hiring advantage

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Marching through quicksand

Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

Lessons Learned: Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum.

Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

More video "what to do if customers don't like your (initial.

Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 44: Jacqueline Ros and Christina Stembel

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

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