Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs. But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model. Lessons Learned.

Continuous Deployment 332

Continuous Deployment Customer Agile Cloud 332

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. Customer Development Family/Career/Culture' A couple of caveats about founders with “ideas.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. A “ scalable startup” takes an innovative idea and searches for a scalable and repeatable business model that will turn it into a high growth, profitable company. Take No Prisoners.

Hockey Stick 303

Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 303

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

The role of a founding CEO in a startup searching for a business model is radically different than a CEO building and growing a company. Do they “get&# Customer Development ? These VC’s are skilled in helping you search for the business model. Your potential business model?

Founder 232

Founder Vesting Later Stage Early Stage 232

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

These new entrants disrupted their food categories by offering high quality proprietary recipes, outsourcing their manufacturing, and using their cash and resources on sales and marketing to build distribution and a differentiated brand. They ran 10 in-store demos, which got them talking to 100s of more customers.

North America 120

North America Lean Customer Development Distribution 120

market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy.

San Diego 40

San Diego RSS Lean Elevator Pitch 40

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. For us as a fund, the tricky thing about this category is that the business model is a bit rough / not straightforward. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

And I think there can many more schools that can be established with a differentiated approach to drive the cost of education down for young people. For us as a fund, the tricky thing about this category is that the business model is a bit rough / not straightforward. They rank up there with the Ivy Leagues et al.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco California Cost Software 48

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation . The ability to answer quickly and confidently when your business model is having holes poked in it during diligence is really powerful.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Saul Klein • Nov 16, 2010 I think the important part of the under-appreciation of the distribution part is the lack of formal structure in business activities and the lack of proper communication arising from it. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

Technical Review 51

Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback. Myth: Lean Startups replace vision with data or customer feedback.

Lean 167

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 167

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As we prepared for the new Hacking for Defense class at Stanford, we had to stop and ask ourselves: How do we use the Business Model Canvas if the primary goal is not to earn money, but to fulfill a mission? In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue?

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Business Model Revenue Channel Community 120