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Twitter Link Roundup #226 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Customer Development 101) – crowdspring.co/1pNIOcD. Crowdsourcing Your Way To What Customers Really Want | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/1oNJIZp. Customer Development 101) – crowdspring.co/1pNIOcD. How to become a mentor – crowdspring.co/RVMhdc. 1nOxHTM.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

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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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

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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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

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: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

In Sweden, he founded omvard.se Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. (And download any of the past shows here.). Clips from their interviews are below.

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