Cleveland Customer Customer Development 
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2010
I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 20, 2014
When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad. Bend needed its own venture firm.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 2, 2013
Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Develop project management and team communication skills.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.
Steve Blank
MARCH 2, 2013
Hawken is an independent school for grades K-12 in Cleveland, Ohio, committed to the idea that students learn more “by doing than by listening.” By Tuesday morning, students fleshed out what they believed to be their value proposition and customer segments. Develop project management and team communication skills.
Steve Blank
MAY 5, 2016
Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. While d oing Nearpod his education startup, Guido learned to listen to the customers and shut out the naysayers: Guido : I was clueless about how the education system worked other than as a consumer… so I’m learning a lot.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 20, 2011
Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze.
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