Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Could we even could find 40 Stanford graduate students interested in being guinea pigs for this new class? This post is part one. What if I was wrong?

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 307

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). Besides, more development time means the client can be more agile with functionality and has a greater potential for success.

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Guinea Application Development Ruby Web Development 200

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Start using some of those customers as guinea pigs for a self-serve version of the product. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Great post!

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167