Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
As part of our Lean LaunchPad classes at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and for the National Science Foundation, students build a startup in 8 weeks using Business Model Design + Customer Development. Set up the Lean LaunchLab or a WordPress blog to document your Customer Development progress. Size the market opportunity.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Wish I could figure out how to apply it to the average data warehousing project which has a single shareed database right at the heart of the entire solution. my data warehouse project has a "single shared database" in it too (the warehouse), and plenty of databases too (post-processing stages, marts).
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 29, 2019
CBInsights has a collection of 300+ startup failure post-mortems , and Crunchbase has a startup failure database. I suggested they do some research by reading founders’ and investors’ public post-mortems of what went wrong. Both of these are required reading. And others exist. Finding these lists is just the beginning.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases. If you are storing all of your data in a relational database, and the load on that database exceeds its capacity, there is no automatic solution that allows you to simply add more hardware and scale up.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Massive proprietary databases? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas. I dont think so.
David Teten
MARCH 28, 2012
The company teams they work with are usually highly motivated entrepreneurs trying to engage in extensive product and customer development efforts for a product they don’t typically have a full vision of, for a customer whose needs are opaque, and for a use case which is ambiguous.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. Customer Development Labs recently shared a great experiment on using mTurk to interview 100 customers in 4 hours for less than $200.
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