Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

Happy New Year! Four months ago, The Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Since then, I have been immersed ...

The following is a rather unusual guest post. One of the more surreal parts of speaking publicly and putting ideas out into the ether is ...

Warning: the video below may be offensive to some readers. It contains irreverent use of religious language. Viewer discretion is advised.  So there ...

Today’s case study answers a bunch of questions all at once about Lean Startup principles: can they be used inside a Fortune 500 company? can ...

Last week I turned 33, while on the road. I received an incredible amount of good news all at once. First off, I received the ...

This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other ...

I was lucky enough to get interviewed by Rob Morris of American Entrepreneur Radio. Ron Morris has a great “radio voice,” and actually seemed to understand ...

The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps is a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one ...

Over the last two months the U.S. government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II. They launched ...

Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds SEAL Team saying Over the last 40 years Technology investors have learned that the success of ...

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 ...

Study this chart & map. It’s a simple way to think about global economic growth & potential. (excerpted from GigaOm article on the web getting ...

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 ...

Most founders following a lean startup approach understand the importance of documenting and validating assumptions.  My team and I have been doing it since day ...

Below is an answer I recently put on Quora… Since I haven’t posted on my blog for so long, I figured some people not ...

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.”

Oceanhouse Media Oceanhouse Media develops mobile apps that “uplift, educate and inspire”, primarily through licensing popular children’s content providers, such as Dr. Seuss, ...

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 ...

Apparently, a lot of people become entrepreneurs for the wrong reasons – to be cool, to make a lot of money, to be the next ...

You’ve painstakingly defined and built an MVP through 100+ customer interviews. You’ve collected thousands of emails from potential prospects through a teaser page. You’re ready ...

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 ...

Quick blog post to congratulate my sister Ada Chen and her husband Sachin Rekhi, who have just announced the acquisition of their startup Connected to ...

Yesterday I attended the 500Startups demo day – it was a fun event and will be interesting to compare to the YC demo day coming up ...

The “Ultimate Driving Machine” is a classic slogan that makes BMW compete based on position, not features. It’s hard to keep things simple, especially when ...

This is reposted from my answer on Quora here. Question: What UX considerations were built into Google+? The most interesting design choice I’ve seen for ...

Simple products aren’t only better designed, they’re easier to market too. Marketing and product UX are seen as conflicting with one another, but there are, ...

We have had a number of attendees at Bootstrapper Breakfasts talk about the value of a StartupWeekend as a way to see the early ...

We have Fortune 500 clients who are launching new products and who want to take advantage of customer development methodologies (or have come to ...

MyPermissions: Checks for third party application access to your Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram, and Flickr accounts. SocialMention: Allows you to do keyword ...

“We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use ...

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. ...

Yeah I’m looking to do something that would function a lot like about.mebut for a particular target audience.

what you describe can be done relatively quickly with drupal But this is already built at [link] If ...

Hi folks, I’m looking for opinions on how to quickly set up a set up a site that accomplishes the following: ...

Tennant Consulting January 27, 2012 I would need more information to answer, like what stage of development you are ...

Hey Ryan just a question Do you scout your own leads and their corresponding mailing addresses or do you use a ...

added lean startup vienna, replaced ‘europe’ with ‘ireland’

Melbourne: http://www.meetup.com/Lean-Startup-MelbourneSydney:Lean Startup Sydney meets once a month in the city. Seehttp://www.leanstartupsydney.comAsia:Interest in having a Meetup, worldwideKiev,Kyiv, Ukraine: contact bsn.dev@gmail.comGroup just ...

added http://www.meetup.com/KCRoundtable/

Email contact address added to list

Paraguay – Asuncion Meetup Group added to list