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TCVN Program: Customer Development

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, January 24, 2019 -- TCVN Program: Customer Development. TCVN now features four educational tracks in four specific areas. Who is your customer?

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

Both Sides of the Table

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? 50:30 Will Udacity change the education system in this country? 1:00:00 Mark and Steve discuss the role of unions in education. What brings you to LA?

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

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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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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. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Teach Like You’re the Student - Steve Blank , August 10, 2010 “I never have let my schooling interfere with my education.”. " Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company - Steve Blank , August 23, 2010 One of the ways I learn is to teach. Short-sighted, no? Mark Twain. Lessons at the end.).

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

Both Sides of the Table

The problem is that when you brand something that will be interpreting differently by people who weren’t part of the zeitgeist when the memo went out about what “fail fast&# meant then we educate the next generation of entrepreneurs to do things the wrong way. How do I know this? This is wrong.

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