Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The board raises a collective eyebrow. The VP of Sales goes back and exhorts the troops to work harder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. Instead, do your product launch first.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. These are people who understand the vision of your company even before the product lives up to it, and, most importantly, will buy your product on that basis. . The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics. Google AdWords or SEM (expensive). Then, in 2015, this is who we added to the team: Jan-15: Head of Customer Success (growth team). Masterful onboarding (cheap).

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