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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. At the heart of Brant and Patricks interpretation of Customer Development is their belief that its fundamental teaching is to question assumptions. I found these to be particularly interesting and worthwhile.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Mainstream customers don’t have enough motivation to buy an early product, and so building in response to their feedback is futile. The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development.

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How to Identify Your Online Target Audience and Sell More

ConversionXL

The data you need to know depends on the product and whether you have a B2B or B2C business. In Lean Startup methodology, it’s called a pivot. Use it for your product development (and for deciding what to sell in the first place). This approach, however, is not very helpful. Relevancy leads to sales.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.