Demand Distribution Early Stage Product Development 
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Among these opportunities, the chance to pitch an investor and secure funding is perhaps the greatest of all — at least in the early stages of your startup career — as it can ultimately determine the long-term fate of your company. VCs want to see that there’s a demand for your product and that you’re able to meet that demand.
Up and Running
JUNE 14, 2017
Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. Early stage idea validation can be accomplished without building an application.
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Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 6, 2022
An untapped pool of demand is waiting for this to come along now, right? Steve Hoffman (07:08): Your, your most important task at the beginning is to be a demand hunter to go into the market. If we're looking at their concept, their investor deck, we're saying, where is that demand? Show us that demand. You got something.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. The goal is to reach venture-scale (~10x return on investment.)
Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2009
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 8, 2015
Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 27, 2009
Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup.
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