Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

Thank you to all of you who joined me for Lean Startup Week 2016! I can’t tell you how moving it is to get ...

Guest post by by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.  The solution to long-term innovation in companies obviously isn’t having one person come up ...

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.  It’s been exciting to watch the Lean Startup movement grow from a practice utilized in ...

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co.  The Lean Startup team has been hard at work finalizing the details of this ...

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co.  Lean Startup Week has it all: keynote talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and lively ...

We’re holding our 2nd Hacking for Defense, Diplomacy,… educators and sponsors class January 17-19 at Georgetown University. The class is for: educators who want to ...

“Being in Silicon Valley, a lot of my friends want to work for Google or Apple, but this class showed me that the problems in ...

I was interviewed at the Stanford Business School and in listening to the podcast, I realize I repeated some of my usual soundbites but embedded in the conversation ...

I had to laugh when my post about what happens when innovative CEOs retire or die appeared in both the bastion of capitalism– the Harvard Business Review— and in the ...

We’ve just held our seventh and eighth weeks of Hacking for Diplomacy at Stanford, and the attention our course is getting from Washington – and ...

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 ...

The Audi race team had the goal of winning the prestigious Le Mans race. Both their closest competitors, BMW and Mercedes, had won the race ...

After the introduction of the scientific method, there was a marked increase in the pace of breakthrough discoveries. Both science and entrepreneurship operate under conditions ...

Happy Thanksgiving! –Ash

The worst possible answer you can get to a question is: “It depends.” It depends is often a cop out for fear of being proven ...

Got an interesting question on tradeoffs between pursuing a paid channel (e.g. PPC) vs. partner channel (e.g. JV). On the surface PPC may seem more ...

One of the most interesting phenomena in my adulthood is watching things that weren’t considered particularly cool in my childhood, become the definition of cool ...

My latest book is Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum and it will be published September 13, 2016. As you ...

“Why would you want to write a book about stealing?” -My Father In the spring of 2014 I started kicking around the idea of writing ...

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 ...

[Andrew: Paid marketing remains an integral part of many products’ acquisition channels, and one of the key metrics is Cost of Customer Acquisition, which is ...

[Andrew: Excited about today’s guest post! I was recently interviewed by the folks at Reforge, a new company started by my friends Brian Balfour and ...

Push notifications are a cornerstone of every mobile app’s engagement and retention strategy, yet we know so little about them. Previously I’ve written about why ...

[Hi readers, I recently met some amazing folks at Mixpanel – Justin Megahan and Amelia Salyers – who interviewed me for their “Grow and Tell” series. This ...

[UPDATE: See below for an update, which includes a formal program. I added guest speakers from Slack, Airbnb, Pinterest, Growthhackers.com, as well as opening with a Q&A with Ed Baker, Uber’s ...

A collection of quotes of interest and use to entrepreneurs: these quotes for entrepreneurs were identified in December 2016. You can follow @skmurphy to get these ...

Some thoughts on Christmas Day 2016: “peace on earth, good will to all men.” Christmas Day 2016 It’s been a wild year that leave me ...

We can grow apart from friends and family we don’t see that often. Christmas Eve 2016 is a chance to reconnect with family and see ...

Theresa Shafer came up with a clever reconceptualization of a common logo for Wifi as a Christmas tree for the OpenSensors holiday greeting: “Have a ...

Some quick answers to common questions about how to protect your intellectual property (IP) and when to incorporate.  IP Protection Copyright can be secured just ...

Some highlights from Ed Catmull’s Creativity Inc. Ed is the President of Pixar. “If there is more truth in the hallways than in meetings, you ...

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 ...

Hi Mark, Thanks for your post. I’m also starting an apparel-related venture, and found this post relevant. As for me, i’ll not be manufacturing my ...

Hi Jose, Thanks for the info. I’ve read and used the Business Model Canvas, but had never heard about the value proposition canvas- I just ...

Hi Mark. This is an interesting question. What I would do first, is to write down your value proposition (you might want to check the ...

Hi Roger, Thanks for your insight and taking the time to think about my problem and helping get into the correct mindset by focusing on ...

Good insights by William Pietri and Roger Cauvin. I had a few questions and one suggestion to complement their remarks. – You describe your product ...

added new york city bootstrapper breakfast, moved Silicon Valley Bootstrapper Breakfast to San Jose, added Winsdor ON Bootstrapper Breakfast

Added current NYC meetup and removed non=existant group

Lean meetups with real people in Tampere!Lean Startup Tampere organized by Jarkko MoilanenFranceParis, France:Lean Startup France organized by Nicolas MarchandThe Paris Lean ...

Wellington NZ: Lean Startup Wellington organized by Dave Moskovitz, Links: @LeanStartupWnIndiaPune, India: Lean Startup Indiaorganized by Agile Plunge, Links: Anil SharmaDelhi/NCR: Lean ...

United StatesMadison, WI: contact jesse(at)piascik.net or Twitter:http://twitter.com/jessepiascikCanadaMontreal, Quebec: contact barry(at)quantumwhisper.com orhttp://twitter.com/barrypaquetAnywhere in Quebec: contact Rita Baker – rbaker@baker-marketing.com (organizer of the ...