Steve Blank

OCTOBER 15, 2019

At the same time, companies and government agencies typically adopt innovation activities (hackathons, design thinking classes, innovation workshops, et al.) The reorg keeps everyone busy for a year, perhaps provides new focus on new regions or targets, but in the end is an inadequate response to the need for rapid innovation for product.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. Your Process Doesn’t Work. friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. It took the idea of Customer Development and made it accessible to a whole new audience. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Entrepreneur Lean Southern California San Diego 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Coming up in just a few short months, you'll have a chance to go in-depth with the authors and their book at an awesome workshop. As we’ve mentioned here once or ten times before, this year, The Lean Startup Conference will include a second day, December 4, with in-demand workshops from established leaders in our community.

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Lean Entrepreneur Early Stage Metrics 141

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

On December 4 at The Lean Startup Conference, three of New York's top UX designers will lead a workshop we're really excited about, Lean Startup in the Enterprise. Gold and Platinum Passes get you into the workshops, and this one is particularly suited to people who are implementing Lean Startup ideas is established companies.

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Lean New York City Cofounder New York 160

Steve Blank

MARCH 14, 2012

Curriculum = business model canvas + customer development. Relentless customer visits (10-20 a week). On-line journal to document their customer discovery narrative. Weekly critiques of team customer discovery progress. Workshop on how to present a story-arc and narrative. Students apply as preformed teams.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development China 254

Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2014

We built on this theme teaching the students opportunity finding, concept development, stakeholder mapping, systems dynamics, research, and business models perspective, culminating with a capstone workshop where they bring it all together. Customer Development Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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Government Philadelphia Lean Customer Development 310

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Intelligent.ly - Classes on startups and tech run by practitioners. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. We realized that students needed help turning all that they were learning from customers into a coherent and crisp presentation. Yet this isn’t an incubator.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 263

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

During the accelerator, the startups will attend lean startup several presentations and workshops held by expert mentors such as Ash Maurya, author of “ Running Lean “, Ian Collingwood, founder of UXdna, Salim Virani, founder of Leancamp, Tendayi Viki, founder of Valideation, and Patrick Vlaskovits, author of “ The Entrepreneur’s (..)

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Silicon Valley Europe Venture Capital Incubator 231

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Workshops. -->. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Media Training.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Next week each team test their Customer Segment hypotheses (who are their customers/users/decision makers, etc.)

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Cloud Intellectual Property Lean Customer Development 238

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

If you’re not familiar with Startup Weekends , it’s a conference- and workshop-type event where a creative and highly motivated bunch of people get together for 54 hours to come up with great startup ideas. Startup Weekend Singapore is back!

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Singapore Colorado Startup Lean 162

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 168

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

What you’ll see at all of our events —whether on the stage, in the workshops , at a mentoring session , or in the site visits —is something other than conference regulars pitching presentations on the usual themes. And we hope that when you join, you''ll come ready to share your experiences and advice with other participants.

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Lean San Francisco Conversion Startup 167

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Dan Adams is all about B2B product development: His free e-book, 32-page e-book “ Reinventing VOC for B2B: 12 New Rules from New Product Blueprinting ” looks at creating irresistible products , and his 2008 hardcover book, “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ , clarifies the “fuzzy front end” of innovation.

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Product B2B Product Development Developer 251

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

They tend to have a multitude of side projects, Github portfolios and hacking workshops on the go at once. Is there a junior or senior developer from a previous gig who will respect you for a previous role and be ready to build their own baby with you? For good passports to the prototype, it comes down to old-fashioned hard work.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

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.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 185

Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

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.

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Lean Silicon Valley Government Acquisition 185

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Diverse Founding Teams, Agile Development Techniques. offers workshops, networking opportunities, and competitions in order to support and expand women's participation in high-growth technology startups. With its focus on the Lean Startup methodology, the program emphasizes idea validation, customer development, and rapid prototyping.

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Founder Incubator Cofounder Lean 146

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Massive conference update So about that conference : We’ve been announcing bit and pieces of the schedule, and today we’re pleased to publish the full program, below, including speakers, mentors, workshops, startup site visits and Ignite: Lean Startup. Gold and Platinum Pass holders can also attend deep-dive workshops on December 4.

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San Francisco Lean Houston Engineer 159

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

To help them get ready for their final, one of our mentors plans to hold a mandatory “story-telling” workshop, to assist them in assembling their final presentation. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design. If you can’t see the slides above, click here. ———.

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 233

Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2015

Then the companies were sent off to do customer discovery before coming to an optional “bootcamp workshop” 12 weeks later. Four certified I-Corps instructors provided feedback to these companies at the workshop. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , NSF (National Science Foundation) , Teaching.

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SBIR Maryland Lean Seed Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile. Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits are among the earliest adopters of new ideas such as Lean Startup and customer development.

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Lean Entrepreneur San Francisco Agile 167

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

Online Events – This includes events such as webinars, demonstrations, and workshops conducted using online tools. Offline Events – This includes events such as workshops, demonstrations, seminars, trade shows, showcases and customer appreciation events. Create workshops and offer to conduct them for your partner’s customers.

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Lead Generation Channel Partner Campaign 28

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Customer Development Developer San Francisco Customer 166

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

What’s customer development?) At this year’s Lean Startup Conference , Janice will give a full-day workshop on Lean Startup 101 , with hands-on exercises.) Next week’s webcast, Lean Startup 101 , is a chance for people new to the ideas to get a leg up. Sarah and Janice will explain the terminology of Lean Startup (What’s an MVP?

Lean 165

Lean San Francisco Cofounder Hosting 165

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Not on the phone, not over Skype but in-person interviews with potential customers. On our flight back from the workshop, I was trying to come up with excuses to drop out of the program. I’m interested in the commercialization side but this fast-paced talking to the customers is not my forte.’.

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Cofounder Entrepreneur Engineer California 199

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Agile Customer Development Developer San Francisco 111

Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

We found that as these overlapping value propositions emerged, we used the results to get the beneficiaries to come together in a workshop designed to jointly create a shared minimum viable product that they could then use to test within their own organizations. Filed under: Customer Development , Hacking For Defense , Lean LaunchPad.

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Lean Kansas Government Afghanistan 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. They often look on this as a waste of time.

Silicon Valley 168

Silicon Valley Lean Puerto Rico Japan 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. Alistair will also be giving a workshop at The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco. Join us there.'

Analytics 167

Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

We did canning and food preservation workshops. It also helped us create a network of farmers, which was another one of those things that we didn’t realize was important, but through all the catering work we had done and the food preservation workshops, we had connected with lots and lots of the farmers that deliver to Little Rock.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Morocco Arkansas 120

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

Not on the phone, not over Skype but in-person interviews with potential customers. On our flight back from the workshop, I was trying to come up with excuses to drop out of the program. I’m interested in the commercialization side but this fast-paced talking to the customers is not my forte.’.

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Entrepreneur Engineer California 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

To go through a deep dive as some sort of daylong workshop that helps them break through a barrier. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. To get pencils out and sketch along with us. It’s resetting their expectations for how all this can get done. It resets our team’s expectations, too.

Small Business Administration 120

Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

Dan Adams is all about B2B product development: His free e-book, 12 New Rules of B2B Product Launch , boosts launch success, and his 2008 hardcover book, “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ , clarifies the “fuzzy front end” of innovation.

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B2B Customer Product Development Audio 124