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When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

Steve Blank

All of this in one magazine, with no hype, just a continual stream of great ideas. For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models.

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When Hell Froze Over – in the Harvard Business Review

Steve Blank

All of this in one magazine, with no hype, just a continual stream of great ideas. For decades this revered business magazine described management techniques that were developed in and were for large corporations – offering more efficient and creative ways to execute existing business models.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

Clay stressed that crowdfunding should not replace Customer Discovery: … Customer Development and Customer Discovery need to be moved earlier – before you launch. Because Lean Startup methods, Crowdfunding, Amazon Web Services and the Internet that connects us all, is bringing the cost of failure to zero. .

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development.

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SuperMac War Story 5: Strategy versus Relentless Tactical.

Steve Blank

Why did we believe that these magazines would care? At the time desktop publishing was one of the mainstays of the Macintosh market, and therefore the readership of these magazines reflected the demographics of the Mac. We provided customer references and testimonials supporting the key features we were promoting.

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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

The startup accelerator also announced that it will incorporate lean startup methodology as a key aspect in its upcoming program, and will be the first in Europe to do so. ” Applications for the second year of the Rockstart Accelerator program are open now through January 20, 2013.

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He's Only in Field Service

Steve Blank

And other startups are in a New Market — creating a market from scratch (like Apple with the iPhone, or iPod/iTunes.) (“Market Type&# radically changes how you sell and market at each step in Customer Development. As another example, I could see which magazines are on people desks, and that tells me where to advertise.