SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
This should be an iterative process with advisors and customers providing feedback on the product. Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative. Go find a new technical resource. Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 25, 2023
A common initiative I hear from business owners today is their effort to improve the customer experience. To achieve real growth, business leaders need to improve both employee as well as customer experiences. Predictive – able to anticipate and provide resources. Flexible – listen to allow flex hours and customization.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 13, 2013
I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This answers the question of “why buy anything?”
socalTECH
APRIL 10, 2018
Matt Stodder: The most important thing is to understand their customers, and who they are going after. They fail to understand what the market is, what their differentiation is to their customers. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development. That kills companies and waste resources.
SoCal CTO
JULY 13, 2011
As you might imagine, when you go to the page on Customer Development , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti. Click around on the various topics to find some amazing resources. The home page always shows the latest and greatest content coming out.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Now you can do it for free, or a few hundred dollars, with one of the many web building tools available, like Shopify or Weebly.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 16, 2012
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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