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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

After I retired, I began teaching Customer Development , a theory of how to reduce early stage risk in entrepreneurial ventures. Raising Money Using Customer Development……… 47. The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy………… 65. Customer Development Manifesto.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

They know the activities, resources and partners (manufacturing, regulation, IP, supply chain, etc.) – and the costs to deliver the product/service and have well defined product development and product management tools that emphasize the linear nature of shipping products to existing customers.

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. IP Location Tools. Great for visualizing work of product development. Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. “My IP” – produced by the UK Intellectual Property Office. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources.

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The Sharp End of the Stick « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role.

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Lessons Learned: CPI > CPC

Startup Lessons Learned

Other than that, you know their IP address, maybe their browser version or what country they are in. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? When someone clicks on one of your traditional CPC or CPM ads, what do you know about them? In other words, not very much.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, users asked that IMVU make a determination as to who was deliberately passing Unfit for IMVU products into the catalog and stop them from performing peer review on either their main accounts or their alts.

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