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How To Find the Right Co-Founders?

Steve Blank

Just list the Activities needed to get a major early milestone – i.e. cash flow positive, or first million users, regulatory submission/approval, etc.). For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. Customer Development'

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Once you have a first version of your app running, you can use the tools on this site to get it into the hands of users and to get paid.” Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users? Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t SurveyMonkey (user surveys).

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

understand who their core and tertiary customers are, and the sales and marketing process required for initial clinical sales and downstream commercialization. assess intellectual property and regulatory risk before they design and build. identify financing vehicles before you need them. It Takes a Village.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 3: Value Proposition Hypotheses

Steve Blank

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. They did an online survey of 200 existing users (~5% response rate). The Week 3 Lecture: Customers.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Rails deployment made easy AppHarbor – Heroku for.net jQuery - cross-browser JavaScript library jQuery UI - official jQuery user interface library. Simple editing.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. Lean VC’s are expert in on-line distribution, Agile and Customer Development.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

When I first started teaching customer development (searching, validating and executing a business model), one of my students pointed out that customer development was similar to the theory of a military strategist, John Boyd. Customer Development Science and Industrial Policy Secret History of Silicon Valley'