Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits, authors of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean ...

The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. Noam ...

I had an incredible couple of days at SXSW. The Lean Startup track was successful beyond my wildest imaginations (we’ll have video up

Greetings from Austin, TX! For those of you on your way to SXSW, I wanted to give a few updates of opportunities to say hello. All of ...

SXSW is less than a week away. Lean Startup ideas will be a big part of the festival this year. Last year SXSW invited me ...

Inc. magazine is publishing a 12-part series of excerpts from The Startup Owner’s Manual, the new step-by-step “how to” guide for startups. The excerpts, which appeared ...

Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.” —– I ...

We’ve taught our Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and the National Science Foundation in 8 week, 10 week and 12 week versions. ...

The quickest way to create a billion dollar company is to take basic human social needs and figure out how to mediate them on-line. (Look ...

Epiphany e·piph·a·ny  noun /iˈpifənē/ A moment of sudden revelation or insight We now know how to teach entrepreneurs how to think about business models and use ...

This is a very special post for me to write, to congratulate some good friends on a job well done. I first met Rashmi many ...

i look kinda scruffy in this Fast Company intvw, but it’s mostly on target.

i’m not doing much blogging at the moment, as you can probably tell from this site. apologies however i’ve been kinda busy getting 500 Startups ...

(ok folks, i’ve gotta take the kids to basketball practice in a few hours, so will try to power through this — that means limited ...

Passion is what being a startup entrepreneur is all about. Great entrepreneurs are passionate about customers and solving their problems — so passionate sometimes, that ...

After helping to bring several startups to market including Dropbox, LogMeIn and Lookout, I found that the key to sustaining rapid growth is ...

The best startups generally begin by trying to address a really important problem worth solving. If they can nail the solution to this ...

There is a way to think about that. The model that I have in mind is a graph where the X-axis is the price and ...

Many of the most successful founders, CEOs and VCs in Silicon Valley belong to the cult of great product.  They understand that a great product ...

The startup I founded last fall, CatchFree, officially launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on Tuesday of this week.  Only a TechCrunch event could offer this: within ...

Those who run in #LeanStartup circles know too well the problems encountered with language.  Eric Ries, Steve Blank and others are criticized for choosing terms ...

When you hear concepts over and over, you often wonder is it because it’s swarming or because your ear is newly attuned to it?  Did ...

ShowUHow ShowUHow offers manufacturers and retailers a series of web and mobile video product guides for every stage of the customer lifecycle, including ...

SrvrDJ SrvrDJ helps you launch your apps into the cloud quickly, easily, and fault-tolerantly. Founded by Leeward Bound, SrvrDJ is bootstrapped.

Bump Bump connects existing digital profiles with your vehicle license plate number, allowing you to “connect with those you don’t know yet.”

I often get asked why I created a different adaptation from the original Business Model Canvas by Alex Osterwalder. Lately, this question has ...

In his book, The Lean Startup, Eric Ries describes the constant challenge entrepreneurs face between “Pivoting and Persevering”, but he doesn’t describe the ...

I just submitted my final revisions to O’Reilly for the printed version of Running Lean which will come out in March 2012. While I had ...

I’ve been practicing Bikram Yoga for a little over 5 years now. My initial draw to Bikram wasn’t the pursuit of spirituality or the many ...

Transitioning to Lean once you already have a product in the market (with some success) is inherently hard because you have to revisit the past ...

I really should update my blog more often — but, until I do…. 1) If you’re in the Los Angeles area, come by the next ...

Come join me, right about now, for a chat about Customer Development on Namesake at noon on July 6th 2011.

FYI your life is now complete: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development t-shirts have arrived. Steven of CargoHawk has put together a suite of startup-themed ...

Top 10 Reasons to Not be a Lean Startup for Momentum Michigan

My buddy, Dave Binetti of Votizen came down this last Monday to present on False Prophets at LeanLA.com’s last meetup (a meetup I co-organize).  In ...

Using retweets to assess content virality Recently I’ve been running an experiment: Tweet an insight, idea, or quote See how many people retweet it If ...

I recently asked, and then answered my own question on Quora and wanted to share here as well. Has Facebook’s DAU/MAU always been ~50%? According ...

After writing my recent article on Growth Hackers, I’ve been asked by quite a few folks on how to learn the discipline. The best answer ...

The rise of the Growth Hacker The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical ...

I was reading today’s NYT article on Google+’s new redesign and found myself continually puzzled by the key metric Google continues to report as the ...

We continue our review of “The Innovator’s DNA” by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. Christensen with a focus on networking, which the ...

Call-in Book Review on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 12:00 PM Pacific / 9:00 AM Hawaii 1:00 PM Mountain / 2:00 AM Central 3:00 PM Eastern ...

Here are my top seven from Seth Godin’s list of 21 ways to make money online. (original numbering preserved). 3. Get rich slow. [link added]

Sid Faulkner, CFO of Ciranova gave a talk today on “Navigating the Treacherous Path of Mergers and Acquisitions” at an event at Abbot Stringham and ...

You can follow @skmurphy to get these hot off the mojo wire or wait until the end of the month when they are ...

“You can be so bad at so many things… and as long as you stay focused on how you’re providing value to your users and ...

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.” – ...

It’s the AngelList centi-sesquicentennial and we want to share some stats with you. After 1.5 years, AngelList has seen… 8,000 intros. An investor has asked ...

Before product-market fit, find passion-market fit. Building a product is a process, not a discrete action. And the Internet is efficiently arbitraged. Every single simple ...

We post links to the very best startup advice on Twitter at @venturehacks. We read Hacker News, the best blogs, Quora, and everything else startup-related. ...

You may want to look at some actual Lean tools like leankitkanban or kanbanery. You may also check out David Anderson’s ...

Hi Rex, I would recommend that you have a look at Smartsheet. Our company started out a long time ago with ...

Ian,. Rick, Thank you very much. I already seen both of those, i was expecting to find something more than that. ...

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Asia:Tokyo, Japan:http://www.meetup.com/LeanStartupTokyo/, Twitter:http://twitter.com/LeanTokyoInterest in having a Meetup, worldwideMoscow, Russia: contact stas.kalkanov@gmail.com or @skalkanovBangalore, India: EMail: mohanmax@yahoo.comSofia, Bulgaria: contact alek@zvuk.net or ...

UkraineKyiv:http://www.meetup.com/Kyiv-Lean-Startup-Meetups/United KingdomLondon, UK: http://www.meetup.com/the-london-lean-startup-group/Manchester, UK http://www.meetup.com/Manchester-Lean-Startup-Group/South and Central America:ArgentinaArgentina:http://www.facebook.com/groups/leanstartupbsasBrazil

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