Steve Blank
JUNE 15, 2009
Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.
Startup Lessons Learned
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. They just ask "which hypothesis should I show?"
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Was the fact that we were primarily using PHP essential, or could we add new tools written in other languages? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? With multiple people trying to work to the same standard, we had to be a lot crisper in our definitions.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 13, 2008
Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? We had closer to several hundreds of thousands of lines of code.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
For example, I wold often work the circle-drawing question with candidates who only had ever programmed in a web-based scripting language like PHP. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development?
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 7, 2009
As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. Second, leveraging a dynamic scripting language (like PHP) for building web applications made it easy to quickly set up a simple, non-disruptive deployment process.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 19, 2009
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.
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