Lean Startups and Customer Development Resources

Post by Lean Startup Conference co-hosts Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries We’re excited to announce this year’s Lean Startup Conference, December 8 – 12 in ...

Guest post by Sarah Milstein, CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people ...

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 week the National Science Foundation goes Lean on education by providing $1.2 million to educators who want to bring their classroom innovations to a ...

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“Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not?” Robert Kennedy/George Bernard Shaw I ...

If you can’t see the video click hereFiled under: 2 Minute Lessons, Business Model versus Business Plan, Customer Development, Lean LaunchPad, Teaching

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 ...

Keeping a locked knee (or a completely straight leg) is key for one-legged balancing yoga poses. A locked knee provides a solid foundation that keeps ...

While you might be really excited by your idea’s potential, others don’t see what you see. What they see instead is something untested and risky. ...

A basic tenet of running lean is validating a product or feature ideally without having to building it first The first battle isn’t fought on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scaling growth is hard – there’s only a few ways to do it When you study the most successful mobile/web products, you start to see a ...

[Today we have a guest post from Alex Schiff, who's a co-founder and CEO of Fetchnotes, which makes simple, smart tools that help people work together ...

This is a guest post by a friend of mine on retention. Jamie Quint is Managing Partner of Quint Growth, a full-service growth consultancy that ...

The reality of consumer products I’ve never met an entrepreneur who’s happy with their metrics. Whether you’re talking about sign up rates, retention rates, or ...

Social products need mass before scaling growth I often write on the topic of how social products can scale growth, resulting in inbound emails to the ...

To get acquainted join us at a Bootstrappers Breakfast in Silicon Valley or sign up for Office Hours. We offer public and private workshops and Mastermind groups in addition ...

Three interesting answers from Tristan Kromer’s interview with the folks at Startup Commons Startup Commons: What’s the best way to get started? Tristan Kromer:  Find ...

I have started to reserve Sundays to write on spirituality, charity, and a higher moral purpose to our life as entrepreneurs. I was struck by ...

Q:  We have already implemented the first prototype of our product, but we need to know that we are either on a good course or ...

Some excerpts with commentary from “On Leadership“  by John W. Gardner. There is such a thing as the “visible future.” The seedlings of [future] life are sprouting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glad to hear you’re making progress, Andreas. On 07/18/2014 03:23 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Next thing, I would do now, is to identify the ...

I want to second Williams post. The fact that you have a prototype allows you to know that you have resolved most of the Technical ...

Your welcome. At this stage I would encourage you to try to have conversations. Use open-ended questions. An if possible have another person on your ...

Hi William, thank you for your very valuable and deep thoughts about our questions! So we were not totally wrong, when we assumed, that the ...

Hello Sean, perhaps I overemphasized the certainty we expect by switching to lean. Certainly (!) we are used to uncertainty and know that we will ...

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BlogDue To the Frequency of “Why Is No One Leaving Their E-Mail on My Landing Page” Question: Always Start With Conversations with ProspectsBlog posts ...

Case Study: Next Big SoundCase Study: BackupAgentStartUp Square on the Taxonomy of the Lean Startup PivotCase Study: WorkingPointCase Study: What I ...

added https://www.launchpadcentral.com/, should consider splitting list into 2 categories: landing page generators and analytics, and experiment management dashboards

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