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His basic point was: If someone, including me, tells you something isn’t a great idea and there’s no market for it there are only two acceptable responses. I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers. Customer Validation 101. Beware of Mentors. It was a top post on StartupRoar on Tuesday.
Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -
And if you had the right credentials to lead people to believe that your next idea was more likely to be right than other people’s ideas then you were certainly backable. It’s why I love the idea of the FailCon conference and hope to speak there one day. And ideas you have to drive acceptance. So what is that?
We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customerdevelopment, etc. It is the key to “customerdevelopment” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post.
He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Summary notes, as always, provide below.
Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. Friday, September 21, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine. See [link] (more)
I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole CustomerDevelopment processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.
Friday, June 8, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Saturday, June 9, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Sunday, June 10, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Matt Stodder: What we see, is we're occupying a place in the ecosystem where there are companies with ideas, but really haven't take those ideas to a place where they can execute or plan for them. There are lots of people who create ideas, without places for them to go. That kills companies and waste resources.
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. The idea of StartupWeekend Next is once you have your idea, what happens next?”. CustomerDevelopment. The Flipped Classroom Approach.
Because GoTo.com was his idea. But bill is a BIG idea guy. My take was that this follows three trends: a) customer involvement in product design, b) mass customization [e.g. On the first point – think of Steven Blank’s customerdevelopment but for physical products. Overture sold for $1.6
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex customdevelopment project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You don’t need to count on the old myth that all you need is a new idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will throw money at you.
Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. The platform approach we took allows teams and companies and venues to access the best functionality, at a subcription price, rather than a customdevelopment price. I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex customdevelopment project, usually costing a million dollars or more. You don’t need to count on the old myth that all you need is a new idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will throw money at you.
We had over 35 ideas pitched Friday night, certainly on the higher side than normal with some really killer ideas. Attendees then cast their votes and 12 winning ideas were selected. Those with their ideas selected were out on the prowl, looking to recruit the top designer or developer in the room.
This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Or he may be the founder’s brother, idea person, or inventor, who can’t be bothered actually working on the nuts and bolts of the real business. Chief Evangelist. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).
This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Or he may be the founder’s brother, idea person, or inventor, who can’t be bothered actually working on the nuts and bolts of the real business. Chief Evangelist. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).
This person may be an extraordinary communicator, who rallies employees, customers, and colleagues around the vivid future he sees. Or he may be the founder’s brother, idea person, or inventor, who can’t be bothered actually working on the nuts and bolts of the real business. Chief Evangelist. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales).
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. This customer loves you, your product or service, your brand. This represents a major paradigm shift.
Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Below are 50 ideas for step 2.
Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? By doing the job.
It’s a way out so that you can focus on your next big business idea. So can somebody with better branding skills than I have please come up with the new term that we can all use for what we all know we want to see – customerdevelopment, MVP, rapid iteration, pivot and learn. It’s quick and easy.
What if someone copies your awesome business idea? No, the question is: What are doing now knowing that a big company will copy your idea? 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 at a $2.5M
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