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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. The Rise of the Lean Startup. After the crash, venture capital was scarce to non-existent. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. Lean started from the observation that you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.

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It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem

ConversionXL

This is a customer development problem. By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value.

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Qualcomm’s Corporate Entrepreneurship Program – Lessons Learned (Part 2)

Steve Blank

A Proof of Concept center, which is not the same as a full-fledged incubator, would also be responsible to develop a companywide core competence in business model and open innovation design and a VC-like, staged-risk funding decision criteria for new market opportunities. Developing a program to generate new ideas is the easy part.

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

These salesmen used their insight into what their customers really needed to make the sale and then deliver something of even greater value. They are gaining valuable customer data. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process. We still struggle to create Firm software that is defect-free, and it still requires customer insight (and maybe some customer development) to discover what will Delight.

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Eureka! A New Era for Scientists and Engineers

Steve Blank

government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering - is changing the startup landscape for scientists and engineers. They’ll explore the best way to deliver the product to customers, the resources required, as well as competing technologies. Until today. billion U.S.

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