Customer Development Developer Merger 
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?
Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2010
One of the most striking attributes of founders is their individual contribution to the company, be it in sales or product development. This shift from Customer and Agile Development teams to mission-centric organization may be beyond the scope and/or understanding of a first-time CEO and team.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 18, 2011
Startups built every possible feature the founding team envisioned (using “Waterfall development,”) into a monolithic “release” of the product taking months or years to build a first product release. Tech IPOs were a receding memory, and mergers and acquisitions became the only path to liquidity for startups. Tools in the New Bubble.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions.
Steve Blank
JULY 6, 2010
Instead of ghost stories they were the first to hear the ideas of what would become Customer Development. When we were looking for funding for IMVU (the company where Eric Ries first implemented Customer and Agile Development and where the Lean Startup was born,) I thought of Shawn. Fast forward to today.
Steve Blank
APRIL 13, 2013
there are almost no mergers or acquisitions in this market segment. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions. on NASDAQ or the NYSE or on ChiNext, China’s equivalent of NASDAQ) compared to the 90% of exits in US via mergers or acquisitions.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 24, 2018
Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along
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