Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. With five days remaining before The Lean Startup Conference, we wanted to lay ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary ...

This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference—which starts ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference, and it includes ...

As our Lean LaunchPad for Life Sciences class winds down, a good number of the 26 teams are trying to figure out whether they should ...

We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary ...

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, ...

One of the great innovations of the 21st century are products that are cloud-connected and update and improve automatically. For software, gone are the days of having ...

We’re teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Health Care (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) at UCSF with a team of veteran venture ...

hi folks. I’m now blogging over at 500hats.com, using the svbtle.com platform. see you around, DMC

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 ...

Yesterday was the third time the Growth Hackers Conference was held in Silicon Valley.   It’s humbling to be a part of the speaker lineup ...

Guest Post By Conrad Egusa  I want to begin by thanking Sean for the opportunity to write this guest article. I came across Sean’s website ...

FACT: Conversion Rate Optimization tops the Digital Marketing Priorities for 2013 according to the Econsultancy Report: “Quarterly Digital Intelligence Briefing: Digital Trends for 2013″ Looks ...

Focus is the most precious asset for any startup CEO.  As much as I love blogging about startup marketing, it just isn’t a very good ...

As much as I hate to admit it, online marketers with engineering backgrounds often have a significant advantage over non-engineering marketers.  They are simply much ...

I’m going to go out on a limb here. I guarantee that good startup mentors exist everywhere, even in your neck of the woods. Without ...

Mentoring is also a more significant part of the economy today than since, perhaps, apprentorship in the craftsman age. Why? The rise of entrepreneurship ...

With Brad Feld coming to town this week, I think it’s a good time to evaluate the state of San Diego’s Startup Community. If you ...

Whether you are a government entity attempting to grow a startup ecosystem, a university trying to commercialize technology, a big business intent on reinvigorating (or ...

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 ...

It’s not enough just to talk to customers. You have to know know. In this post, Garrett shares his lessons learned for crafting effective customer ...

In my post “Why You Should Never Ask Customers What They’ll Pay, I covered how to uncover initial pricing for your product by first spending ...

Can you imagine Steve Jobs asking you what you would have been willing to pay for an iPad before it launched? Sounds ludicrous right? Yet, ...

In his book, “All Marketers are Liars Tell Stories”, Seth Godin defines a “worldview” as the set of rules, values, beliefs, and ...

Eric Ries describes the three A’s of metrics as: Actionable, Accessible, and Auditable. Today, I’d like to share our take on what it means for ...

In tech startups, The Engineer’s Conceit is thinking that: a) you know what needs to be built b) you create value by rolling up your ...

In tech startups, The Marketer’s Conceit is thinking that: a) you only have one chance to ‘make a good first impression’ b) your ‘brand’ matters ...

Because the current criticism of lean startup and customer development is, for the most part, so markedly atrocious, so lacking concrete insight and usually amounts ...

Penicillin was discovered on September 28, 1928 by the serendipitous efforts of Scottish scientist, Alexander Fleming. Legend has it that Fleming noticed an open petri ...

An entrepreneur named Nick Jones recently reached out to me after reading The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development. Nick is the founder of Lavish Longboards. ...

[The topic of setting goals, especially quantitative ones, is a really important topic for any team and any startup. A common format has been the ...

This is a followup guest post by Elizabeth Yin on her popular essay, Why you can’t find a technical co-founder. Liz is the CEO and a co-founder ...

Dear readers, Today, I’m happy to congratulate my good friend Steve Chung and his team on raising $6M from SK Planet for their new ephemeral ...

This is a guest post by Ryan Hoover, the Director of Product at PlayHaven and creator of Startup Edition. Follow him Twitter at @rrhoover or ...

Note from Andrew: I recently wrote an essay on the virtues of using Google Trends to analyze the underlying traction of products instead of focusing on PR. ...

Mastermind groups complement our Bootstrapper Breakfasts, they are for entrepreneurs who want to meet with a smaller group of the same people on a regular ...

The regular schedule for the Bootstrappers Breakfasts® fit nicely with the holidays this December. One around the table question we will ask at all three December breakfasts ...

(You can also download from http://traffic.libsyn.com/skmurphy/TWF-SKM-interview131202.mp3 ) I have been collaborating on a new podcast series on competitive thinking and business wargaming with Terry Frazier ...

I re-read Tom DeMarco’s “Slack” over the Thanksgiving break and came away with a couple of good ideas worth sharing.  He offers the following definition ...

You can follow @skmurphy to get these hot off the mojo wire or wait until they are collected in a blog post at the end ...

Must be a 1-man startup. Must code. Must write good copy. Must be passionate about solving problems for our customers, not “designing.” Must fix other ...

I do the onboarding for all new AngelList team members. Part of it is asking them to read the following (many candidates have read these ...

We care about: Eliminating frictions so startups can change the world Connecting startups with their ideal partners, on the best terms, fast Building tools for ...

How much traction do you need to raise $1M? AngelList’s Ash Fontana has the answer on TechCrunch: Read the post for details and also see these ...

We use very little email at AngelList. Most of our communication happens on Yammer, HipChat, Tracker and face-to-face. This probably gets us a 90% reduction ...

Is your key hypothesis that you have a proven business model based on Zomato and now you need to drive traffic to your site? A ...

We would be launching our start-up in early 2014. The concept is providing doctor’s database and reviews to the enduser.Its just like what zomato does ...

Hey all, I am looking to get in touch and talk to a few Etsy sellers who would be willing to talk to me about ...

I agree 100%. I often tell people that they should have three solution ideas or none at all. Having one is terribly risky. Rajiv, one ...

One trick is to think like a doctor and have a number of prescriptions (solutions) at your disposal (one or more of which may be ...

Added link to Dallas’s Lean Startup Circle Meetup Group

Rammohan Reddy (@mohanmax)Natwar Maheshwari (@natwar86)Contact Infocontact@leanmantra.inLean Startup Pakistan (LeanStartup.pk)Lean Startup Pakistan is a not for profit initiative by Mini Ventures ...

Added the 1st Lean Startup Circle in Pakistan for Lean Startup Circle Karachi

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Added contact details for Lean Startup Cambridge.