Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We are downright thrilled to announce that Kathy Sierra, ...

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean ...

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Exciting news: we’ve nailed down dates for The Lean Startup Conference ...

Those of you who have ever launched anything know just how precious the hours on launch day ...

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. The book has been a year in the making, and authors Ben Yoskovitz ...

I am honored to be with you as we gather to celebrate your graduation. This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the ...

The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared.  And it’s just going to get worse. It’s time to teach Cyber Security as ...

The Harvard Business Review is offering free reprints of  the May 2013 cover article, “Why the Lean Startup Changes Everything“ Available here Filed under: Big ...

Todd Branchflower was one of my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford to get his graduate engineering ...

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” Groucho Marx In my 21 years as an entrepreneur, I would come ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s Pioneers Festival in Austria was a great surprise (I wasn’t sure what to expect).  It’s very hard to make time for events, but ...

I recently worked with Hyperink to publish a collection of the most enduring articles from my blog. We carefully curated and compiled the articles that ...

It has been a couple years since I wrote the first post on growth hacking.  The term didn’t gain much popularity until Andrew Chen wrote ...

(UPDATE BELOW 4/10/13) With Brad Feld coming to town this week, I think it’s a good time to evaluate the state of San Diego’s Startup ...

In case you missed it! (Originally published by PandoDaily on January 19, 2013) Whether you are a government entity attempting to grow a startup ecosystem, ...

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 ...

One of the reasons measuring “true progress” in a product is hard is because we prefer reporting good news over bad. We like charts that ...

Since writing about Lean Stack (our innovation accounting framework), it has been downloaded by thousands of teams and we’ve had first-hand experience (by way of ...

In a startup (or any new product) where you don’t yet know whether what you produce will generate customer value, you are better served by ...

I recently caught up with Ben Yoskovitz who co-authored Lean Analytics with Alistair Croll. In today’s world where we can measure almost anything we often ...

I read a lot of books – averaging 5/month. For right or (most likely) wrong, I don’t read any fiction. I get my fiction fix ...

  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 ...

I am taking a quick creative break from editing The Lean Entrepreneur, and as I poke my head into my Twitter stream, I invariably come ...

“We aren’t losing deals to other VCs, we are losing deals to startups that continue to bootstrap.” -anonymous venture capitalist lamenting the state of affairs ...

The mania and confusion about the concept of a Growth Hacker is now getting ridiculous. As one of the three people who helped to define (but I ...

Today, the 500 Startups Mentor thread has had some very interesting back and forth about how to mentor startups  and more importantly,  how to measure ...

I’ve recently tried to recommit myself to blogging and as part of that, I pulled together my recent set ...

Attitudes towards the Facebook platform have changed Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, ...

Upcoming May 3 conference in San Francisco My friends Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani are putting on the second Growth Hackers Conference in San Francisco on ...

The short version: As of today, I’ve removed the links the RSS feeds on this blog, and ultimately will phase them out completely in favor ...

Above: My twitter followers graph for the last 2 years – it slowly grows, mostly from cross-sell from my blog to Twitter. People find it ...

Join other entrepreneurs for serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit at a Bootstrappers Breakfast®. Paul Spaan, CEO of Spaan ...

Theresa Shafer met Ari Halberstadt at a Bootstrapper Breakfast in SF earlier this year and was very impressed with his approach to his new startup, Catalee. ...

Quick reminder:  I will be moderating a panel on “Successful Consulting Engagements with Startups” at the May 21 IEEE-CNSV meeting. I volunteered to pull this panel ...

Join other entrepreneurs for serious conversations about growing a business based on internal cashflow and organic profit at a Bootstrappers Breakfast®. Holly DeVito, CEO of Sum ...

For some clients we record our working sessions so that they can play them back later and we can listen to them and improve the ...

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 ...

Every team member of AngelList is on a 6-year vesting schedule. Including the founders. Why? Because it takes a long time to build something important. ...

The entrepreneurial age will be as important as the industrial age and the information age. In the industrial and information ages, we learned how to ...

For an entrepreneur, if it is possible to make it better, she must make it better. If it is possible to make it more accessible, ...

Michael, Glad ti helped. As far as tips for lean developers, the mantra is always the same: mercilessly eliminate waste and prioritize based ...

Thank U pretty much Spike. Im gonna do exactly what you’ve advised. I’ll spend more time trying to gather more feedback from the ...

I generally look at it this way: Consumers are the users of the service, Customers are the people who pay you. ...

May be you have two websites. Certainly you have two mailing lists. – John Sechrest . . ...

Hello Mike, I think that it is fortunate that you have many of the pieces in place to make the next ...

The resolution of your presentation on a projector will be far lower than on your computer screen,

There are a number of different formats for your meetup group and people try new things all the time. These are just a few suggestions.

Added another casestudy, a Failed one

Added University outreach page and section.