YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.

Silicon Valley 231

Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Are you fighting about whether a button should be green or blue or are you fighting about whether or not you want to raise money? Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. Ask yourself: When we fight do we get over it quickly and respectfully? What Are You Fighting About?

Cofounder 329

Cofounder IPO Early Stage Green 329

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. We suggested that teams talk about their hypothesis tests, draw diagrams of product flows through the channel and let us know who the customer segment is with a “customer archetype” slide.

Lean 256

Lean Business Model Agile United States 256

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. Your customers teach you which features actually matter by whether they will buy. Filed under: Customer Development , E.piphany.

San Francisco 228

San Francisco Database Advisory Board Silicon Valley 228

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The green arm is the best. ;) October 2, 2008 10:27 PM Andrew Badera said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Customer Segment : Owners/administrators of large green spaces (golf courses, universities, etc.) ——— Next week each team tests their value proposition hypotheses (their product/service) and reports the results of face-to-face customer discovery. would buy an autonomous mower. Stay tuned.

Business Model 236

Business Model Nebraska Peru Germany 236

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

May 16, 2009 1:52 PM Todd Green said. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Not all programmers are entrepreneurs, granted there are exceptions. Good Post.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

This week the team started investigating whether the spectral reflectance curves of healthy green plants are different from weeds, and if so could an infrared Hyperspectral imaging camera be better suited than their current visible light camera for weed/plant recognition.

South Dakota 217

South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 217

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The biggest lost opportunity of all, though, is this one: we no longer need to rely on scarcity or status-oriented measures to filter which projects should get the green light. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

Then I would return back north to the much drabber green palette of bombers and uniforms and continue to defend democracy. Sure the rest of the stories diverge though… can’t really imagine a Soviet counterpart to the Customer Development method. Reply Ben C. ,

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley Thailand RSS Michigan 195

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs. The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

No, this is not a marketing gimmick; we've already had to reduce the size of the stage (and eliminate my personal gold-plated green room) in order to make more seats available. We are already on track to sell out all the tickets before the conference (indeed, the Platinum Pass is no longer available).

Lean 159

Lean San Francisco Houston Engineer 159

Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Looking at the green and yellows of the farms, I realized that my life lacked the same colors. With the Pacific ocean on my right and the Santa Cruz Mountains on my left, Highway 1 cut through mile after mile of farms in rural splendor. There wasn’t a single stop-light along 2-lane highway for the 45 miles from Half Moon Bay to Santa Cruz.

Silicon Valley 175

Silicon Valley Chad RSS San Francisco 175

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever. They would give companies $250,000 to launch their products.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. That being said….

Conversion 112

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 112

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. That being said….

Conversion 105

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 105

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. That being said….

Conversion 101

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 101

ConversionXL

JUNE 12, 2014

Yes, it will probably make your user experience more persuasive, but your time will be much better spent focusing on identifying your target market , customer development , and data driven traffic acquisition. That being said….

Conversion 84

Conversion eCommerce Software Review Green 84

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development. Thousands, then millions of new customers were coming to the site through SEO, just like we’d guessed with our customer acquisition hypothesis. Filed under: Customer Development. Customer Development' In fact, some probably still do. Validation.

Lean 293

Lean Agile Customer Development SEO 293

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

Lawrence Green Thanks for reading, listening, and watching. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Think of one concrete thing you can do in the next 24 hours to move you closer to this." Long pause. Thanks for listening." Your feedback, positive or negative, is always welcome.

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Video Lean Customer 68

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. 25 Sustainable Green Business Card Samples for Inspiration – [link]. Good, in-depth look at the economics of food trucks – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Steve Blank

JANUARY 7, 2016

Prior to co-founding TechShop , the former Green Beret was an exec at Kinko’s, Avery Dennison and Health Net. Mark explained why being a Green Beret is good training for entrepreneurs: (I learned) confidence, leadership, discipline, stick-to-it-iveness, the ability to function on very small amounts of sleep. . …

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Green Founder 120

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are.

San Francisco 166

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 166

Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Technology. Sweet Sensors – Portable sensors using widely available personal glucose monitor. Principal Investigator: Karen McDonald University of California-Davis.

America 241

America Rhode Island Southern California Illinois 241

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Generally, if all tests pass, its happy (a green build) and if any tests fail, it will notify you by email. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It runs all the automated tests youve written, and keeps track of the results.

Software Review 136

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For (B) there are some tens of billions of rectangular green reasons to keep it quite secret until some good lawyers have done good things with patents. Here is an extreme example: Idea (A) is a pill, taken once, and safe, that will cure any cancer right away. Idea (B) is actually how to make such a pill.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2010

Granite mountains and alpine green meadows during the day, unblinking stars in the frigid August nights. Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. If you’re doing Customer Development /Lean Startup, Shawn is a great guy to have as an investor.

Venture Capital 175

Venture Capital Agile Customer Development 175

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? Forgive me, I'm a green Quora user.

Developer 42

Developer Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder 42

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

In addition, if you’re an early stage startup and you’re still doing customer development , it’s too early for MVT. As he explains: Andrew Anderson: “Debating which is better, partial or full factorial, at that point is useless because you are just arguing over what shade of green is one leaf in the large forest.

Design 48

Design Analytics Campaign Programming 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

I myself didnt understand it until I had the opportunity to view that failure through the lens of the customer development theory. I had a big advantage, because Steve Blank , the father of customer development, got to see the failure up close and personal too as an investor and board member.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. He started Passageways Inc. He started Passageways Inc.

San Francisco 121

San Francisco Indiana Lean Startup 121

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

analyst (sit on butt and react to red light green light alerts all day). Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. Its a big burden and very stressful.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Bethnal Green Ventures. Customer Development. green tech. Virgin Green Fund. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53