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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

InfoChachkie

The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.

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Why “The Culture of Failure” is Imperative to Startup Communities

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1:45 Are you also making your Udacity class available online? 3:30 What is the class all about? 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? This video is pure gold. What brings you to LA?

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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

Tech Zulu Event

The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”. The Flipped Classroom Approach.

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The Customer May Not Always Be Right, But You Had Better Listen Just The Same

Tech Zulu Event

The irony is that currently both these onetime best in class companies are now in deep trouble. Today we are in the era of “Customer Experience”. In fact, Customer Experience (CX) turns the product development chart upside down. We are rapidly changing from an Information Age to a time of Customer Experience.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Develop your business plan. Developer. Dec 26, 2009). believe that is certainly true.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership. How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5

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