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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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China’s Torch Program – the glow that can light the world (Part 2 of 5)

Steve Blank

Israel, Singapore and now China are the three countries that have successfully put that theory into practice. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital. China Customer Development Technology Venture Capital'

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Blind Men and an Elephant- Nature Versus Nurture and Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Or look at Israel. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital. Tags: Customer Development Venture Capital. I’ve written and presented a bit on this subject.). They have more public companies on the U.S. NASDAQ stock exchange than any other country. (In Is it their DNA?

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Steve Blank

Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Fast forward to today.

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Vivek Wadwha - Campus Entrepreneurship , November 19, 2010 Best Practices for Introduction Emails - Israel Venture Capital 2.0 , March 25, 2010 Weekend Reading - The Mogul Mom , October 1, 2010 Make informal advisors part of the team. Berkonomics , November 29, 2010 Rice Alliance IT/Web 2.0

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Quick Update

Guy Nirpaz

We’re in the process of customer discovery,the first phase of Customer Development methodology. While diving deeper into the business fundamentals of a SaaS company I realized that there are many similarities, and various applications of lean concepts into business practices of SaaS companies.

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