SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have. what format would you and the developer want that in? Customer Development Notes I'm assuming founders are having customer development conversations. Founder : Ummm. what do you mean? Founder : Umm.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 16, 2012
The Lean Startup approach dictates that successful customer development is an iterative process. By conceptualizing, selling, gathering feedback and then developing a product, startups achieve success more quickly and economically. Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
At this time I can tell you that the Brits definitely didn’t have a culture of failure. 4:30 How did you come up with the idea of customer development? 37:45 Let’s talk about the dichotomy between customer development and Y Combinator? I remember this lesson well. What brings you to LA?
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. Assistly is a customer support product designed to meet the needs of the current era of multi-channel touch points (think Twitter, email, chat, forum in addition to phone calls). Made ME laugh, anyways.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. It never happened in any time frame I can remember, and it definitely won’t happen today. A programmer can build a new smartphone app for a few thousand dollars.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I used to always tell my development team, “you need to design a product that my dad could use.
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