Channel Customer Development Technical Cofounder 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 9, 2013
Now that you’ve gotten to know your potential channel and customers, regardless of how much money you’re going to make, will you enjoy working with these customers for the next 3 or 4 years? My customers were 14-year old boys. It was a lifelong lesson that taught me to never start a business where you hate your customers.
Steve Blank
JULY 7, 2015
My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. Eric was the very first practitioner of my Customer Development methodology which became the core of the the Lean methodology. Taking My Class.
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Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line?
Steve Blank
MAY 11, 2009
The Cinepak codec was written by the engineer who would become my cofounder at Rocket Science Games.) Since we had gotten out of the software business when we came out of Chapter 11 , and our sales channel didn’t know what to do with software, we licensed ReelTime to Adobe. I was the Senior Technical Writer for SMac from 1988-1991.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MARCH 11, 2014
They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. Patrick: You can channel Cathy Sierra on this and say that the users, you become a Meeting King. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. There’s a third alternative, and that’s a cofounder. Jason: Oh, yeah.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
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. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy. We been managing the field by plan more than 75 enterprise customers and channel partners.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Post launch, if you gain traction, is where the business person will help take the load off of the technical folks. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. Ron Oh and another factor to bring reality to the table - Sometimes you find out your cofounders suck.
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