Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development
Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development: Fail #1 - Talk talk talk Fail #2 - θυμάστε αυτό Fail #3 - Being Gullible
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The 3 Best Usability Testing Tools for Mockups and Wireframes
"What the best tool for wireframing?" I've used quite a few and I've come to a pretty strong opinion on the best tools for the job.
Customer Personas for Customer Development
Personas are an amazing tool for doing customer development. They are the clearest form of hypothesis, test, and learn (a.k.a. build, measure, learn)
Iconic Innovation | Humanity's Greatest Innovation
Are our expectations of humanity so low that we are prepared to proclaim not fighting amongst ourselves as an innovation?
13 Tactics and Tips for Running Meetings - Growth Board
I recently ran across an old guide to running meetings that I wrote for a larger company. Here is is with only minor edits:
Three Lean Transformation to Live By
Three principles that everyone at the TechBA lean startup bootcamp by TechBA agree on including Patrick Vlaskovits, Brant Cooper, Tim McCoy and Hiten Shah.
Market Validation - How do you validate your startup idea with customers?
If the customer doesn't start complaining for the next fifteen minutes, they don't have a pain point. The length of time a person will complain uninterrupted is a pretty good proxy for the amount of pain they're feeling.
Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? Value Creation In Entrepreneurship
Domainers as a whole view themselves as undervalued and suffering under a stigma and are lacking "much-deserved recognition."
Startup Weekend Lesson Learned #2 – Steve Blank get out of the Building
At the last Startup Weekend (#swmobile) the team I joined was called KissMobs. We were the only Startup Weekend team to finish the weekend cash flow positive.
Reverse Customer Development a.k.a. Thank God for Earlyvangelist
This week I was incredibly excited to be ambushed by a couple of users who told me how many things we needed to fix in order to make the site usable.
$3.95? We're Rich! - Learn to Test Business Model First
startupSQUARE, having not yet progressed to beta testing, now has revenue! Granted, a very small amount of revenue. Why?
Two Sided Marketplace-Customer Development with Network Effects
How does customer development differ with regards to products which require a network effect to be useful? Short answer: No one knows.