American - Businessman | 1953 -
Founders, presuming they know their customers, assume they know all the features customers need.
Steve Blank
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By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.
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While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.
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Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.
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The Lockheed Skunk Works, led by Kelly Johnson, was responsible for its Advanced Development Projects - everything from the P-80, the first U.S. jet fighter plane, to the U-2 and A-12 spy planes.
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Decades before we were able to articulate the value of 'getting out of the building' and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.
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Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.
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The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.
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Michael Bloomberg has yet to get his due for engineering the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
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Companies that get started and built in New York City tend to be applied technology.
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It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit - the match between what you're building and who will buy it.
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