Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

(However, in some industries such as life sciences, founders may be tenured professors who are not going to give up their faculty positions, so they often become the head of a startup’s scientific advisory board, but aren’t part of the founding team.). Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. We had put together an advisory board, and one of our advisors was the VP of Database Marketing at Schwab. Filed under: Customer Development , E.piphany.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

Do they “get&# Customer Development ? And some larger funds that specialize in later stage deals may have a partner or two who likes to invest at this stage. Do They Get Customer Development? Have they heard about Customer Development ? Is Your VC Founder Friendly? Who do they have as advisors?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) Terman, who now was the Provost of Stanford, had joined the U.S. No one in the Army Signal Corps knew much about computers. (To

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Life Beyond Code

JULY 16, 2013

How do you know that the problem is real if you have never talked to the target customer? This is where you build your team, your extended team, your advisory board, your board, designers, developers, your partner network and your influence network and more.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Moreover, they can be potential advisory board candidates. The idea that a startup builds its product for a small group of initial customers rather than devising a generic mainstream spec is radical. The risk here is lost time and no product for customers to provide feedback against.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Executive / Advisory Board Compensation. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. VentureHacks on Startup Advisory Boards â?? Lodestone Innovation Partners (IP) Ltd are spin-out specialists. accel partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. Oh, this is just a Photoshop file?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply steveblank , on September 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm said: Greg, The Google Group “Lean Startup Circle&# at [link] is a wonderful repository of Customer Development/Lean Startup success and failure. It’s more reference material. Thus, these pages. I’ll add more as time goes on. Can we touch base on this.

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