Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

Lately, I’ve been hearing from a lot of entrepreneurs experiencing pushback to the concept of minimum viable product. Their teams may disagree about what ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week–and now that we can ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference Eleven months in the making, the full schedule for

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. If you build products or services, then having empathy for your users is ...

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Boost your entrepreneurship skills withoutgetting out of the building this fall. With an online course ...

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now ...

The Art of the Minimal Viable Product. 2 Minutes to Find Out Why If you can’t see the video click hereFiled under: 2 Minute Lessons, ...

There are 4 types of startups. Which one are you? If you can’t see the video click here    Filed under: 2 Minute Lessons, Market ...

The landscape for how to turn life science and health care technologies into viable companies has changed more in the last 3 years than in ...

If you’ve received this post in an email the embedded videos and powerpoint are best viewed on www.steveblank.com We have learned a remarkable process that allow us to be ...

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 ...

Startups live and die by their ability to drive customer acquisition growth.  Of course many startups are doomed to failure and can’t grow because they ...

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 ...

Note: This article first appeared in Xconomy during San Diego Startup Week. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps better known these days as Oxforddictionaries.com, ...

Non-ROI-measurable marketing sucks. Non-ROI-measureable marketing practices are a throwback to pre-Internet days, when advertising and branding were built upon a house of cards. Creative geniuses ...

San Diego Tech Founder Chris Hoover was kind enough to produce these fantastic notes on Charles Hudson’s talk from April 23, 2014. Thanks, Chris! (Edited for clarity.) ...

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 ...

Seth Roberts has unexpectedly passed away. Others who knew him more intimately than I did, have already penned, quite eloquently, why he will be missed. ...

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 ...

Hello readers, Happy 2015 and hope everyone had a relaxing holiday. As always, more essays are coming soon for the next year. In the meantime, I ...

[Andrew: This guest post is written by my friend and former Palo Alto running partner, Nir Eyal. Messaging apps have been a fascinating area within mobile, ...

[Andrew: Trying to build and launch dating apps is a favorite pastime of 20-something tech entrepreneurs. However, dating products are notoriously hard to grow because ...

[Andrew: There’s very little data out there on mobile, and so in the last few weeks, I’ve had guest posts on the % of users ...

[Andrew: A few weeks ago, the folks at Kahuna released some great data showing that up to 60% of users opt-out of push notifications. Now ...

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

I had a great conversation with a first timer after today’s Bootstrapper Breakfast in Sunnyvale. He was a serious entrepreneur who had been bootstrapping for two ...

Founders need leads and deals. Don’t pick give-aways that bury interest from real prospects. Have a real conversation and exchange cards or scan a badge ...

Customer discovery interviews are essential to testing key B2B product hypotheses and understanding your target customers’ needs. Broadly there are five ways that you can ...

Alexander Jablokov‘s first novel, “Carve the Sky,” has a number of elegantly phrased observations and insights. It’s science fiction, set about four centuries hence in ...

This guest post is by Tyler Willis, an entrepreneur and angel investor. You can learn more about him on AngelList. For several interesting macro-economic reasons ...

Must be a 1-(wo)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 ...

On 01/31/2015 10:59 AM, Jason Pridmore wrote: Any advice about how to apply actionable analytics to a web service? Which analytics do you use to ...

Hi Jason, What you really want to track is how deeply engaged your users are, from lead all the way to paying customer and then ...

Any advice about how to apply actionable analytics to a web service? Which analytics do you use to determine actionable steps to take? I’m looking ...

Hi Sean,  We have identified 58 and share them in this document, feel free to use it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tc_VIGb5ZmYwuQyakyNGTKVJ2dUVJLDe1sXBMri00KY/edit?usp=sharing On Sunday, December 7, 2014 at 9:14:38 PM ...

I would file a bug report so that it can be included in the errata for later editions or fixed/deleted (e.g. page 121 “Improving a ...

Courses that are focused on lean approaches to innovation: customer development, lean startup, lean innovationadd links and supporting references and we will refactor as ...

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