Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

This lets them deliver a first version of the product to customers in a fraction on the time. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Startups traditionally required millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product to customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

This lets them deliver a series of minimal viable products to customers in a fraction of the time. For products that are simply “bits” delivered over the web, a first product can be shipped in weeks rather than years. Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development. More recently it's skewed to software & web. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you’re a scalable startup, you want to spend small amounts of money (seed capital) as you run experiments testing your hypotheses. In normal times, when there aren’t dollars to undo mistakes, you use Customer Development to find product-market fit. Why small amounts? No startup ever spends less then it raises.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. Startup Seed Raising Skilzzz [link]. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. To what extent could I trust web design companies?

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