Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2013

What we care about in the innovation community is growth that is driven by customers and creating value for them. You have to go find your own customers to experiment with, you have your own brand, so you have to think like a Lean Startup. But you’re not going to your core business.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. The scene will kill you. Your First Iteration of an Idea Will Be Wrong.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. customer development. agile engineering. Some general customer development slides click here. Free: Startup Tools. Berkeley presentations, lectures and syllabus here. Find it here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

He came down a few weeks ago to visit our company, FindTheBest , where we chatted about his lean start-up concept and held a Q&A for the FindTheBest team and others in the Santa Barbara tech community. Lean Start-up Connection: Customer Development. Staying Agile. Lean Start-up Connection: Agile Development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. Quickly iterate the product in front of customers. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. None of this has gone unnoticed by the venture community. New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 Here’s why. Startup Lifecycle Today.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2011

Everyone I met in this program “gets” the principles of Agile, Lean and Customer Development big time. Finally, I was impressed to find a robust local entrepreneurial community centered around A2Geeks and the Tech Brewery (after I met Dug Song I understood why.). A Lack of a Startup Culture in the Community.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2020

Customer Development became one of the three parts of the Lean Startup as Eric Ries and Alexander Osterwalder provided the other two components (Agile Engineering and the business model canvas.) It’s the impact you make serving God, your family, community, and country. And in the end the measure of a life is not time.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

And the venture capital community became comfortable in funding them. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on other researchers and the venture capital community. So the engineers taught themselves how to become marketers, sales people and CEO’s.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

Followed by an 8-minute slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey over the 10-weeks. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. All the presentations are worth a watch. Team: Panacea.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

Their goal was to train University scientists and researchers to use Lean Startup methods (business model design, customer development and agile engineering) to commercialize their science. These classroom innovations often remain effectively a secret – unknown to most STEM educators or the research community at large.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. They are building more functionality into the site, a great community resource! Community Service. Community Follow @women2. Community Events.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah Parsons says, “Start collecting contact information for interested, prospective customers. Develop a landing page, do some lightweight advertising, and generally reach out to as many potential customers as you can.”. Use a development methodology. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Each of their slide presentation follow their customer discovery journey. This fall a series of new “Hacking for X…” classes will address these deserving communities.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. The process starts by collecting agency-wide ideas and/or customer problems, collecting a group insight, and sorts which problems are important enough to pursue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement. It's a big tent.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. I have embedded a short survey or feedback link into the page and will gather qualitative data from my users that way.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. Portals that want to unify news, communication, tools, etc.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Each of their slide presentations follow their customer discovery journey. All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. The teams presented in front of several hundred people in person and online.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Introducing Hacking for Defense – Connecting Silicon Valley Innovation Culture and Mindset to the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. What do all these groups in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DOD/IC) have in common? Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA. North Korea.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2016

First was to teach students to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to make decisions at speed and with urgency in a chaotic and uncertain world. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 1, 2016

First , would students to sign up for a class that engaged them in national service with the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community? Second , could we find islands of innovation inside the DOD, the Intelligence Community and State Department willing to engage students to work on real problems? Result: Hell yes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

They’ll learn how to apply “lean startup” principles, (“mission model canvas,” “customer development,” and “agile engineering”) to discover and validate agency and user needs and to continually build iterative prototypes to test whether they understood the problem and solution. Real Problems.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

military can work together – for access to advanced technology and to learn how to move with agility, speed and urgency. — — — Matt Weingart is a program development manager in the Strategic Development Office at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

NSF led the development of the SBIR program in the late 1970s. It has since been adopted by the entire federal research community. SBIR/STTR Phase I applicants needed more help with “commercial feasibility”…a perfect fit for business model design, customer discovery and agile engineering – so we rolled out the NSF I-Corps.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

How they think and feel; their sense of community; and their appetite to share their opinions are all creating new paradigms for how any business, regardless of size, connects with its customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. For bonus points, make this a paid subscription. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? You can find the origins of many successful companies in these early lessons. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. Expo SF (May.

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