Steve Blank

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It was a lifelong lesson that taught me to never start a business where you hate your customers. You don’t want to do Customer Development with them. So you and your team need to feel comfortable being in this business with these customers. It never goes well. You don’t want to talk to them.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

Capital is returned to these investors through liquidity events (originally public offerings, but today mostly acquisitions). Its acquisition of Android may have been the biggest bargain in corporate history. Filed under: Corporate Innovation , Customer Development.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. Take a look at the chart below. (It

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

They taught you about customers, markets and profits. The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. Startup exits in the next three years will include IPO’s as well as acquisitions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Building a scalable, profitable, customer acquisition engine. Now we turn it around.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. great web customer acquisition tutorials. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro. Part 2- 3 tools for startups.

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