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

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To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. So when he saw the browser it instantly dawned on him that this would be the greatest customer development tool ever.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem. This got me to thinking: What would the ideal founding team at a web startup look like? Short-sighted, no?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves). Customer Care Today. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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