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Steve Blank on Rethinking the Product De…

Quang Tran — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:38:37 +0000

Steve Blank on Rethinking the Product Development Process

The rest of the talk:

1. Rethinking the ProductDevelopment Process
2. Assessing Customer and Market Risks
3. The Customer Development Process
4. Engineers and Founders: The First Sales Team
5. Don’t Seek Publicity Too Soon
6. Company Building as Shakespearean Tragedy
7. Acting on Customer Discovery
8. No VP’s in a Start-up
9. Intimate Customer Understanding

Customer Development Methodology

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Another podcast in the bag. This time we…

Steve Spalding — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:29:51 +0000

Another podcast in the bag. This time we talked to Nancy Brauer, a writer and all around interesting person whose latest web project is a serialized web series called Strange Little Band

As entrepreneurs our job is to strive to…

Steve Spalding — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:09:58 +0000

As entrepreneurs our job is to strive towards solving Hard and Very Hard problems, while constantly making our way through trivial ones.

Very Hard is the extreme of hard problems. You’ll often see both words capitalised for emphasis, even in the middle of a sentence. Indexing the entire World Wide Web and providing relevant search results in millisecond response times is a Very Hard problem. Breaking commercial-grade encryption within practical hardware and time limitations is a Very Hard problem. Peace in the Middle East is a Very Hard problem.

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