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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?