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Why Lean May Save Your Life – The I-Corps @ NIH

Steve Blank

understand the core customers and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. gather data essential to customer partnerships/collaboration/purchases before doing the science. identify financing vehicles before you need them. Or sign up for the webinar on July 2 nd here.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Go ahead and try it, then come back. Youve just experienced vanity metrics hell. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Cost and time are effectively absolutes (The Caretaker's high finance schenanigans and 20th century Physics aside). I define Architecture (capital A) as "the advocacy for human values in a process" (not little a architecture, over-arching structural approach, just design-in-the-large). Expo SF (May.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

This is why so many small businesses can be financed with simple bank loans; the level of risk and uncertainty is well enough understood that a reasonably intelligent loan officer can assess its prospects. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.