Customer Development and France

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JANUARY 29, 2012

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. I could have gone to Nice (France) or Minsk or Bergen (Norway), but the event in my hometown was a lot easier to get to. That is where I come in. I signed up for this past weekend in St.

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APRIL 27, 2009

These exciting days of contact with stimulating, dedicated people provided a breadth of experience which I still treasure.&# Is there anything more to be added to his memoir?

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany is Now in Russian

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AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs from Japan, France and now Russia believed they could help startups in their country if the Four Steps to the Epiphany was available in their native tongue. Filed under: Customer Development. All these translations have been crowd-sourced. They translated it at their own expense. Blame it On Eric. Good enough.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Stanford engineers realized that this tube, which had been invented in France, could electronically tune through microwave frequencies while producing almost a 1,000 watts of power – (equivalent to the output of 200 jammers over Germany in WWII.)

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APRIL 15, 2016

Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.” Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. ” The majority of the time people preferred drinking our California and Napa wines over the Bordeaux or Burgundy ones.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

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JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. You can imagine how well that worked. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Startup Ethics: Albatross or Essential? « Steve Blank

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APRIL 2, 2009

Think about the baseball Steroid scandal, Tour de France doping scandal, housing bubble, etc.) Don’t confuse or rationalize “relentless and focused&# with cheating. Shortcuts are easy. But besides being morally wrong, in the end they come back to bite you big time. Do the right thing. It pays off in the end.

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MAY 20, 2011

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There was a big flap in the press when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to permit Nikita Khrushchev to bring a captured gondola and tour the USA to show what the Government was playing over Russia.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

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MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Before that, restaurateurs would never compare California with France. It was “France is great” and “California is jug wine.” Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. ” The majority of the time people preferred drinking our California and Napa wines over the Bordeaux or Burgundy ones.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Check your assumptions, what went wrong?

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