August 2009
6 posts
“It’s time for us to start thinking of every piece of content – books, blogs,...”
– Lessons Learned by Eric Ries
“The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects...”
– The Promise of the Lean Startup (via hiten)
Customer Development & Lean Startups, a Primer
Customer Development:
According to Steve Blank, a startup should travel through four distinct stages,
Customer Development
Customer Validation
Customer Creation
Company Building
Stages one-through-three are about creating your money-making machine, and stage four is about fueling it. The classic mistake Steve rails against is attempting to do all four stages at once; you can’t...
I used to think it was such a clever social manipulation back in college; Professor Pausch (yes, that one) would show his cell-phone to his audience and remark how advanced & marvelous our technology is. “If you would all show me yours as well….. then we can turn them all off right now.”
Har har. It worked, his lectures were ringtone-free.
More commonly, I’ve seen his...