Customer Development Internet Product Development Security 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Their idea was to build a next-generation autonomous robot, that could be used by defense and security agencies around the world. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? My favorite example of all time comes from students in an entrepreneurship class.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 15, 2009
As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 17, 2010
If this is your attitude, your conception of tech support is completely backwards and you're missing out on important channels for marketing, product development, and sales. Yes, I'm flagrantly paraphrasing the legendary Kathy Sierra , but the idea applies as much to tech support as to product development.).
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 30, 2008
All cash in most secure possible instruments. Over-communicate with employees, investors, customers. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Everyone from the receptionist to engineers is selling. Not just about expenses, about increasing revenue.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 3, 2009
Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. I remember once being asked in a Microsoft group interview (and dinner) about the ActiveX security model. I remember answering "What security model?"
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