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It Must Be A Marketing Problem

Steve Blank

The Customer Development process is the way startups quickly iterate and test each element of their business model , reducing customer and market risk. The first step of Customer Development is called Customer Discovery. outside the building and test them in front of customers. VP of Sales – “Sure.”

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community (Fall 2013 Edition)

Rob Go

Boston is a great place to start and build a company. However, Boston is a transient town, especially for the student population that refreshes a large number each year. This guide is designed to help you hit the ground running and is a starting point for your entrepreneurial journey in Boston. The Grand-daddy. The Grand-daddy.

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Blind Men and an Elephant- Nature Versus Nurture and Entrepreneurship

Steve Blank

Today Silicon Valley, New York and Boston, are magnets for entrepreneurs in the U.S. Filed under: Customer Development , Venture Capital. Tags: Customer Development Venture Capital. Are we going to look back in 30 years and say the same about why there are so few woman entrepreneurs today?

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Ardent 1: Supercomputers Get Personal

Steve Blank

He and his wife Gwen would found the Computer Museum, first in the lobby of DEC headquarters, then in Boston (and now as the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) My first inkling that computing had a history (with deep military connections) was looking at the SAGE air defense computer at the Boston Computer Museum.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kayak is great Boston-area success story. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. great group of people and a small enough gathering that you can actually get to know many/most of them. Lots to learn from him. Here’s why.

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Teaching Entrepreneurship – Logistics

Steve Blank

I also teach a less intense introduction class for engineers called the Spirit of Entrepreneurship and the Customer Development Class at Berkeley which I’ll describe in a future post.) Actually I made up my mind just on my plane to my final round of interview with the Boston Consulting Group.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) I hear similar things for pre-revenue startups that are on schedule, on time, and on budget - even though they are busy building something that nobody wants. (In