Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 329

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

2) There is nowhere consumers can go which aggregates all the late availability properties in one place and guarantees the best prices. Turning to the business and how we’ve worked together, the first thing to say is that Matt’s customer development work was encouraging. This is a big opportunity.

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Stealth Cofounder Aggregator Europe 141