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Customer Development in Japan: a History Lesson

Steve Blank

I asked Tsutsumi-san to write a guest post for my blog to describe his experience with Customer Development in Japan. After waiting for a week or so for the book to make it to Japan, I was very much shocked how impressed I was by the Customer Development Model detailed in the book. ————-.

Japan 305
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Lead and Disrupt

Steve Blank

Do they have better sales, marketing, or product development groups? What the winners start with is the realization that in a world of continuous disruption, they have only a few years to develop new capabilities or be pushed over the brink. Is it that some CEOs are better than others? Are their people smarter?

Incubator 419
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Building Great Founding Teams

Steve Blank

Most startups that fail over team issues fail because co-founders hadn’t dated first, (spent time together in a Startup Weekend , worked together in an incubator , etc.) They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

Cofounder 335
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Why Companies are Not Startups

Steve Blank

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. existing enterprises are establishing corporate innovation groups. StageGate Process.

IRR 335
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 185
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The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Goes Lean

Steve Blank

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

Lean 185
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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. Customer development would be reduced to a single person exercise that could be repeated in parallel dozens of times over, ultimately yielding 30+ companies a year. Second, the company must eventually own the product development and maintenance functions in-house.