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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. . It was a disaster. Expo SF (May.

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Minimum Viable Persona – Get To Know Your Customers All Over Again

YoungUpstarts

by Andrea Fryrear, author of “ Mastering Marketing Agility “ The profound transformations in the world over the past 3 months have led to a radical and rapid fire transformation of consumers’ preferences and needs. Consider the example above, which is primarily for a B2B audience. An Exercise to Generate Your MVP.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Book Short: Is CX the new UX?

OnlyOnce

The Customer Experience (CX) movement is gaining more and more steam these days, especially in B2B companies like Return Path. The authors define Customer Experience as “how your customers perceive their interactions with your company,” and who doesn’t care about that?

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. I encourage B2B startups to keep them in their customer development arsenal. Expo SF (May.

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How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly.

Startup Lessons Learned

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May. Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0

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