Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video. A few of the many quotations that struck me: “Most startups fail due not to the failure of product development but due to the lack of customers”. But customers didn’t agree. All a startup has are mere hypotheses,” and. “in

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They recorded many of their sessions on video. They taped people using existing products. Getting Customers Involved in Product Priorities – Around the time that Salesforce.com acquired my company we also acquired a company called CrispyNews. They had decided to take a Digg style approach to product development.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

For example, Artem is an expert in software engineering, product development and all things tech. And when we can’t manage to meet each other in person, we simply video chat on Skype. Meanwhile, my talents lie within business management and networking. We also even talk about our personal lives. Bottom line.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2012

After 54 hours of intense product development and business pitching at Startup Weekend Singapore over the weekend, Team Snapsell – which developed a mobile application which allows users to sell stuff on a mobile-first marketplace – beat over 40 other ideas to emerge victorious as grand winner of the event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging. With the Internet and modern video communication tools, including Skype and Google Hangout, you can find the people you need, from anywhere in the world, and sign them up quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

You can give advice about applying Lean Startup ideas to business areas other than product development. The talks l inked here all all t a ke you to videos from last year.) We require that you create a video for us, and we give explicit directions on how to do so. Focus instead on the advice you can give.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. It encourages a startup to invest in customer discovery and validation in parallel with product development prior to product launch. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. There are a couple of videos that are relevant to this discussion. Will start to pay attention. Great post Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Own the development methodology - in a traditional product development setup, the VP Engineering or some other full-time manager would be responsible for making sure the engineers wrote adequate specs, interfaced well with QA, and also run the scheduling "trains" for releases. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

These costs don’t take into account the many relevant systems within Shopify’s business such as maintaining its API, the infrastructure and server space needed to support its 50,000+ shops and designing and developing all of the beautiful templates that help make Shopify so successful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said. Its really helped me articulate my thinking on this topic, and includes an entire chapter on the topic of reducing batch size.)

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. That’s in stark contrast to the traditional Product Development Model where it’s expected a customer is already there and waiting and it’s simply a matter of [.] familiar with Customer Development you should be.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

VentureHacks did a great summary , which includes slides and video. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." The theory of Product/Market Fit is one key component of customer development, and I highly recommend Marcs essay on that topic. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Generally, simple fonts are better, because you want to make sure customers can read them when they’re smaller or overlaid with complex video backgrounds. Next, you can set up business profiles with your website link, brand logo, and tagline, then you’re ready to start sharing videos and other content. Design Your Brand Logo.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 3, 2019

Success in marketing and product development comes from a deep understanding of your target customer. In marketing and product development, we can solve this problem by doing the right user research ( market research ) to create fictional characters that are highly detailed representations of your target customer base.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

Not sales, product development, or fundraising. Talkative’s novel platform brings voice, video, chat and cobrowsing into customer facing websites to increase revenues and improve customer service. It doesn’t take long to ask your employees and network, so do it. You need to truly embody what I call the ‘hiring mindset’.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Stage 3: Productizing the Solution to Corporate Problems. In Stage 3 an Innovation Outpost creates a product development group to bring to market the solution(s) (a product or service) to the challenge(s) that led to the establishment of the Outpost in the first place. What solution are we productizing ?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. After your product launch. Point #1: Developing a Proof of Concept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Testing Accordion Forms – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Rather than sending text-based releases to media sites in the hopes of being published, brands are more likely to bring press releases in-house and generate video announcements of important company advancements. When press releases are required, interactive or video-based versions will be most effective. Photo Credit: Kevin Burke.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv If not, youd better watch video of his talk ASAP. And then you can buy a t-shirt.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said. Expo SF (May. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

Expect video, Instagram, live streaming, and podcasts to dominate the list in 2023. 14- Brands will prioritize vertical video marketing Photo Credit: Austin Armstrong The number 1 trend for 2023 digital marketing will be brands making vertical video marketing a top priority. Facebook is here to stay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It must cross boundaries, working cooperatively with other divisions in your business such as sales, marketing, social media, PR, product development, and the like. How will customer videos, stories, and other customer content be used in social media efforts? Cheaping out” on resources.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 7, 2025

After paying R&D costs, product development, packaging, staff costs, and more, start-ups often look for ways to market and scale on a relatively tight budget. Use written articles and videos to showcase your expertise and attract customers. Launching a new business and brand is no easy feat.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

If you’ve got to write a blog post, if you’ve got to get an email out to a client, if you’ve got to respond to customer service, if you’ve got to work on product development, whatever it is, give yourself 25 minutes, set that timer, and go.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The video above is from Megan MacKay.

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