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Steve Blank • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
In a startup, the founders and Product Development team define the first product. The job of the Customer Development team is to see whether there are customers and a market for that vision. (Read this last sentence again. It's not intuitively obvious, but the initial product specification comes from the founders’ vision, not the sum of a set of fo
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How to Scale Yourself Down
Target early adopters.
Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
Near the end of my stint as an entrepreneur, my friend Henri Verdier (now the chief information officer of the French government) and I wrote a book together: L’Âge de la multitude[177]. We designed it as both a testimonial of what the startup world was all about and a wake-up call for the old world of elected officials, civil servants, and corpora
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Building an actual product‐quality deliverable to learn, even if that deliverable has minimal functionality, leads to substantial waste of time and money, which of course is the antithesis of Lean.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
minimum feature set to put in front of customers.
Ash Maurya • Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works (Lean (O'Reilly))
We are discovering and developing a set of reference customers in parallel with discovering and developing the actual product.