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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

One day, we became convinced that a killer app for IMVU would be to sell a presidential debate bundle, where our customers could put on a Bush or Kerry avatar, and then engage in mock debates with each other. It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap.

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Lessons Learned: Lean startups vs lean companies

Startup Lessons Learned

Toyota employs something called "set-based product development" where they develop multiple versions of a product at once. Imagine developing three versions of a web site in Prototype, JQuery, and Flash -- all at the same time. Experimentation is not necessarily waste. Talk about "wasteful experimentation."

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Founders and dysfunctional families « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

And as I stared through the billowing clouds of soot flashing between black and white took on fantastical shapes as tiny figures on the factory floor scurried around the bucket. Next, you have to deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. I could have stayed there all day.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

We eventually embedded the Flash interpreter into our process, so we could experiment with our UI more quickly. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? There are plenty more techniques even further upstream. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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

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" => I have not bothered to put up a landing page, survey to test customer demand, or done any customer development whatsoever. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" Step 3: Show to perspective customers. "I am a creative guy with a startup idea."

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Startup Resources

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Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Great for visualizing work of product development. Customer Development. Flash Networks. Flash Portal. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank.