Remove Business Model Remove Customer Development Remove SCRUM
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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon. Tuesday afternoon they got out of the building and headed to a local mall to begin the customer validation and development process.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Patrick: Exactly.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. broken vc model. Business Culture. Business Model Canvas. Business plan. business symbiosis.

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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.