Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I am often reminded of the story of the building of Chicago and the rise of modern skyscrapers of glass & steel with non-load-bearing walls as talked about in The Fountainhead but also chronicled in history books and in the many architectural tours I’ve taken in Chicago. Failure is critical. What brings you to LA?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

He was a smart kid as well. … (and went) to University of Chicago as a junior in high school. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. I used to run home and take all the notices out of the mailbox before my parents would see them whether it was poor grades or I think I set the record for the most absentees.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. This has been nearly a 4-year journey,” said Schonthal who prior to moving back to Chicago in 2011 had been working in healthcare venture capital in San Diego. It Takes a Village.

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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. Especially if you don’t normally listen to podcasts? How to move from a free to a paid product without losing all your users.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. Filed under: Customer Development. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. As we tried to sell outside the Valley, it is a very different world. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. Filed under: Customer Development. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. As we tried to sell outside the Valley, it is a very different world. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2012

If you want a preview of what I’ll be talking about, Steve Blank , the successful entrepreneur and brilliant brain behind the Customer Development idea, has an outstanding and thorough (like everything Steve does) review of Startup Communities up on his site. This is the first public session in Boulder about Startup Communities.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

My ideas about Customer Development started evolving around these concepts. — [link] (excuse my shameless self plug) Reply Sam , on June 18, 2009 at 11:06 am Said: I’m an undergraduate currently interning at a Chicago-area startup. When I moderated my behavior it was when they were my startups.) It takes two.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Here’s what he did, and why he had a change of heart about I-Corps that marked a career pivot for him: I started not even cold calling; it was cold showing up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 3, 2010

Im excited to announce the first six confirmed simulcast locations: Delft, Netherlands [link] Provo, UT [link] Boulder, CO [link] Chicago, IL [link] Barcelona, Spain [link] Vancouver, Canada [link] Please RSVP so our organizers can plan capacity accordingly. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 8, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

There were a couple streets, the meat district of Chicago, and I just started knocking on doors. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. Here’s what he did, and why he had a change of heart about I-Corps that marked a career pivot for him: I started not even cold calling; it was cold showing up.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2012

I found they all apply to tech startups and below is my effort to apply the theory to the practice of customer development. Cialdini mentions the example of a Chicago restaurant, that had a huge problem of no-show reservations, which made it difficult to run the business, predict costs, etc.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2012

I found they all apply to tech startups and below is my effort to apply the theory to the practice of customer development. Cialdini mentions the example of a Chicago restaurant, that had a huge problem of no-show reservations, which made it difficult to run the business, predict costs, etc.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2014

Of course, you can learn about how to speak to these problems & understand the noise, through customer development , feedback loops , qualitative studies , and smart social media marketing strategies , but even then, you might still need some help getting the market’s attention.

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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? Customer Development Help Affordable Customer Development Support! Please Share! Feel free to Contact me.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The discoveries in tube and circuit research suggested new electronic intelligence and countermeasure techniques and systems; in turn the needs of the Applied Lab pushed tube and circuit development.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

There’s some fantastic producers in terms of who the output of those accelerators and incubators have been in Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco. You need to go out and do some customer development. Certainly, there are some that are more famous than others. That’s not really helpful. You need to do some research.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

The idea of taking a professor, a graduate student working under the professor and they get together with an entrepreneur — someone who has the experience — and work as a team, going through the whole Customer Development and Lean Startup process … just made complete sense to me and I thought everyone would see that.

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