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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. I want to tell you a story about how a team pivoted and succeeded by synchronizing product and customer development. Filed under: Customer Development.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Your thoughts resonate and I enjoy much your writing style.

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Market Opportunity From Customer Hostility, Exhibit 802.11: Airline WiFi

Gust

On a customer satisfaction scale of 1–10, this experience scored a zero. If it were a new service offered by a startup, I would never use it again, chalking it up to failure to do any customer development whatsoever before bringing it to market.

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What I Learned from 500 Educators – Build Back Better Summit – Results

Steve Blank

Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. We need to know what sweet spots for customer development work best with zoom and that don’t work best with zoom. And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. San Jose, CA. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Women in Wireless SF Chapter - San Francisco Launch Party.

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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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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. And that’s where my plane ticket ought to take me to install some computer equipment.

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