Customer Development Product Development Small Business 
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2013
Creators of new products in environments of extreme uncertainty, startups face enormous risks. In the US, about 50% of small businesses fail in the first five years. Through rapid experimentation, short product development cycles, and rigorous measurements of the right metrics, they can ascertain what customers really want.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.
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Steve Blank
MAY 7, 2009
My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. Your investors may require something quite different.)
Steve Blank
JANUARY 6, 2014
In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
The other areas, which are not necessarily things that matter as much to me but I do believe help the ecosystem: * reform in contract awarding -- right now the government doesn't meet its quota (22% or something like that) for small business work.and almost everything goes to the same group of prime contractors.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 4, 2009
interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. nice post April 2, 2009 11:00 PM web design India said.
Up and Running
MAY 23, 2016
Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.
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