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Watching My Students Grow

Steve Blank

And they were absolutely convinced what the world needed was an auto-driving lawn mover for institutions with large green spaces. The Customer Development process, this relentless drive to turn hypotheses into facts is what makes this learning so rapid. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

The Agora team decided to formalize the customer discovery process by coming up with a set of Customer Discovery principles and questions that were as good as any I’ve seen. They had 16 interviews with target customers (Zynga, Yahoo, VMware, Walmart, Zeconder, etc.) The result was a density map of target customers.

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

The class is intensely and deliberately experiential to develop the mindset, reflexes, agility and resilience an entrepreneur needs to search for certainty in a chaotic world. We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. And do it in 8 weeks.

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How We Fight – Cofounders in Love and War

Steve Blank

And, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked what to look for or what to think about when starting the process of finding a cofounder – a true partner to start your next company with. You’re looking for an employee, not a partner. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. What Are You Fighting About?

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Less is More, More or Less

Steve Blank

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. My partner asked five or ten questions, everybody nods and the meeting was over. Your customers teach you which features actually matter by whether they will buy.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. They worked on understanding their partners. The Nine Teams Present.

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

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" Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea. Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life? " => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. Rockstar v.