Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. Talk about waste.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house. Our model at Casual Corp.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. Will be looking forward to seeing the next piece that you do. Andrew Holt I love these kinds of articles.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. China has simply become the factory.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
131 
Let's personalize your content